This has been asked here a few times before. While you wait for a response, you may be interested in these older answers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3r6qy0/why_was_napoleon_exiled_rather_than_executed/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4azxn5/why_was_napoleon_exiled_to_elba/