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In the 1977 movie, Star Wars Episode IV, orders to excecute the princess are given several times. Once an order to execute her "immediately" but still she was not executed and was later rescued. Why was she not executed?

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this assumes a time lag -- if things happened very quickly, maybe no time had passed. A bigger question might be why Vader doesn't use a mind ploy to get her to reveal the plans etc, or torture her. Doing that, he would discover her Force-powers as Luke's hidden twin sister the way he felt when he was in ship to ship combat with Luke. (remember, in episode 5, Luke communicates with Leia psychicly even though she has no Force training.) – Dan Dec 24 '12 at 14:23
@Dan Vader did torture her; that's what the bot with the needle was about. The radio version of Star Wars was much more explicit about it... probably the most horrible thing I've ever heard over the air. – Kyle Jones Dec 24 '12 at 23:16
@Dan "Jedi mind-tricks" (are Sith mind tricks different?) only work on the weak-minded. It could be argued Leia was anything but. – Michael Itzoe Feb 18 at 16:19

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