The Walking Dead season 7 airs Sundays at 9pm on AMC.
In the end, it seems that Glenn’s death just has too much of a narrative butterfly effect on the future of The Walking Dead for Kirkman to be comfortable letting him live.
Mirroring what happened to Glenn in the comics, Negan literally bashed Glenn’s brains in with his trademark weapon Lucille.
That man was Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), who was defiant to the bitter end, and as Negan said “took it like a champ.”