Because I don’t see the point in continuing the pattern of violent crimes against the women in this series. There are entirely innocent women and girls who have violent acts done to them, just as there are women who have done bad things and have violent acts done to them. I don’t believe that the severity of the punishment should match the severity of the crimes. Cersei has done really awful things, but why should she be murdered by a former lover and a man she trusted while other men who had committed crimes get cleaner deaths or a judicial process?
Look at Gregor, for example. His “death” is the result of a duel, and though it was long and slow, it was certainly an easier death than what he had given his victims, especially his female victims with whom he practiced a pattern of indiscriminate rape, abuse, and murder.
Even Tywin, who sanctioned rape and torture and murder, got off pretty easy. It’s really not practical to demand that Tywin’s death also be torturous and cruel and long; sometimes their death is enough (though in Tywin’s case, I’d argue that he at least deserved a public trial to drag his name through the dirt, but that was never going to happen under Baratheon rule anyways).
So yes, Cersei has done terrible things, much worse than many other victims of violent crime, but that doesn’t mean she deserves to be killed via a violent and intimate crime, especially when she has already had so much violence, sexual assault and humiliation done to her. In a perfect world, she would be put on trial, and given a public and dignified death. I know that’s likely not going to happen, which is what makes me unhappy.
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