User blog comment:AustinDR/PG Proposal: John Coffey/@comment-32725786-20190823000758/@comment-32725786-20190823050432

Even so, the ailment is still a grave one. The inherent brutality in the disease still doesn't make Percy's fate/demise better than what he has done; if anything, his fate may still be Worse than Death.

Also, even if John himself didn't kill Wharton, he may have still intended for Wharton to get killed. I am not against Wharton getting killed; I feel that killing a PE is not excessively brutal. While John may not be wrong in punishing Wharton, when qualifiying as PG, how he does it still matters. The act/intent itself of killing still affects whether the hero who did it can count as PG or not.