SPECULATION Darth Vader On Trial

I personally think that if Vader did survive and the same events happened, I would say he would have been found innocent. Because he was no longer Vader, others may still want him to be punished but Luke might of persuaded them to forgive what he had done.

 

Lol. Or if he was still Vader and Emperor still died Vader will kill everyone.

 

Well, maybe he used the mind trick on all the jury lol.

 

If Luke was left out of the trial, I believe death penalty would be the way to go.Vader was THE face of the Empire. His death by the Rebels' verdict would send the perfect message to the galaxy that the Empire is no more.

If Luke had his say in the matter though...I honestly don't know.

 

Stripped off his suite....and send into the sand dunes of Tatooine.....Yeah...barely redeemable...

 

The Rebel Alliance would probably have Anakin executed . . . and he probably would accept the verdict.

Anakin and Vader are not two separate entities. They are the one and same person.

 

Needs a ruthless rating, but there is none. So, I'll settle with a .

 

Since the galaxy did not know Vader was really Anakin Skywalker up till 6 years prior to TFA (Bloodline), Luke could have, like Obi-Wan told Luke about truths from certain point of views, told the galaxy that Vader was dead and his father, Anakin, was freed from being the Emperor's prisoner.

Luke did want Vader to let go of his conflict and go with him, so I'm sure he had a plan in place to hide the truth from the galaxy.

 

Give Anakin a white version of the suit. "That was Daft Vader, this is Smart Vader." Yes, I do notice the black is evil and dumb and white is smart and good analogy whichever smartypants is thinking they can comment that . This is just meant to be a dumb comment .

 

List of Vader's crimes:
Countless counts of murder (ranging from younglings to Jedi Masters)
Torture of prisoners
Participation in genocide and the complete destruction of a planet
Turning a blind eye to slavery (at best)
Likely hundreds of other war crimes
And then there's the fact he's the biggest symbol of the whole regime outside of Palps himself. There's no way he would have gotten away scott free without Luke hiding him.
Best possible case scenario is that Luke might (emphasis on might) be able to get the sentence commuted to exile (preferably somewhere filled with sand). After all, he did kill the Emperor and Luke does have some clout being the one who destroyed the first Death Star, though this will likely be a sacrifice of any respect in the eyes of most of the Alliance (as we see with Leia decades later). The only other possibility is that he would be executed for his actions.

 

100% agreed.

 

Or Leia's reaction to the whole situation. She would have been forced into keeping Luke's secret, divided between her love for her brother and his judgement and her hatred of Vader, at the same time trying to form a relationship with Anakin, her real father, who she knew was or had been Vader.

Where Luke found compassion for Vader, Leia would be emotionally divided in accepting reality and Luke's forgiveness of Anakin for Vader's Evil.

Luke would have made the newly freed Anakin Skywalker a hero for destroying Vader and the Emperor. Obi-Wan's insight gave Luke the ability to see Anakin and Vader as two separate entities, but the galaxy doesn't see things that way, so Luke would have hidden the full truth and told it from his point of view. The galaxy would have found out the real truth eventually but maybe not until after Anakin's death.

 

I believe the Rebellion supports the Jedi, and I don't think the Jedi would condone the death penalty.

I say life in prison, followed by 500 years in Ghost Prison.

 

some of what splits the New Republic politically is the question of what to do with the remnants of the Empire.

in the heat of the moment, execution would make the most sense (the general public could give a fig if he's sorry).
tie the case up in the courts long enough, though (if he isn't captured or there's some red tape), and he could find that death commuted as Centrist sentiment takes more power.

case in point the Lincoln Assassination. the dupes who carried out the chaos (and even some who didn't) were punished (four of them executed), while the mastermind got off practically scott-free after evading arrest for years. and even those who went to jail eventually got their sentences commuted as public sentiment changed over the years.

 

There's a difference between Vader and the Lincoln assassination. A more accurate historical comparison would be the Nuremberg Trials.

 

oh apples and apples, oranges and pears ~ ha!
either one works. you're talking about a reviled crime, a knee-jerk reaction for blood, and softening of public opinion in the aftermath.
but with Lincoln there was no Simon Wiesenthal after the fact. that's probably why i went there.
in some ways the American Civil War may actually be a better comparison as the New South rose to the Centrist position politically thereafter.
but i'm kinda stupid about German history, so i could be missing important stuff.
ultimately, i'm just speaking from what i know well enough to talk about it intelligently ~ hahaha.