Luckily for us, a lot of other people were vehemently against executing Craftly. That definitely worked in our favor.

[ jay doesn't know what they would have done if there were more people on the fence. it could have gone either way. ]

But now that option is on the table, and people may return to it in later trials. Especially ones where we don't know who the murderer is. I'm sure people would prefer to vote for him versus voting blindly. If we lose him, we may be unable to check for Prophets, and if that happens...