Hey, hey, stay true to the story! Scheherezade by herself was guilty of nothing. Check, for example, wiki:
"The story goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهریار - Šahryār, "city-server" or the king) would marry a new virgin, and after doing so would dispatch the previous day's wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was unfaithful to him. He had killed 1,000 such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter."
That vizier's daughter being Scheherezade, who went on telling her husband stories and fairytales each night (of the "to be continued" sort). Those were so charming and interesting that he'd postpone her execution every next day only to hear what happened next. After 1001 such night he finally gave up and decided to keep her as his "permanent" wife abandoning his previous vicious decision.
Hey, hey, stay true to the story! Scheherezade by herself was guilty of nothing. Check, for example, wiki:
"The story goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: شهریار - Šahryār, "city-server" or the king) would marry a new virgin, and after doing so would dispatch the previous day's wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was unfaithful to him. He had killed 1,000 such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter."
That vizier's daughter being Scheherezade, who went on telling her husband stories and fairytales each night (of the "to be continued" sort). Those were so charming and interesting that he'd postpone her execution every next day only to hear what happened next. After 1001 such night he finally gave up and decided to keep her as his "permanent" wife abandoning his previous vicious decision.