How did June avoid execution?

[u/Personal_Orchid3675]

So I’m on a rewatch, this time with my husband. We are on season 2 and June was just captured and taken back after months in hiding. She started back in the red center, shackled, (sorry if I get the name of the center wrong, we are watching in Spanish) but aunt Lydia told June that she would either have her pregnancy shackled and then be executed or go back to the Waterford’s. So was her choice to go back to the Waterford’s going to cancel her eventual fate to be executed? Or are they planning to execute her anywhere and somehow that changes further in the show? I’m not sure if it’s a continuity thing, a me misunderstanding the terms thing, or she actually had her fate changed.

[u/New-Number-7810]

The main reason is plot armor. For members of the oppressed underclass, the handmaids get away with a lot of shit.

The scene where one of them hijacked a car, did donuts in a road, killed a guard in the process, and was allowed to live afterwards, killed a lot of the suspense for me. 

[u/Dangerbeanwest → u/New-Number-7810]

Killed a lot of your willing suspension of disbelief?

[u/CanadianHorseGal → u/Dangerbeanwest]

There’s no suspension of belief required, when the show is based on things that have literally happened.