The state of Texas spent almost $ 1.2 million on the execution of Leonard Hughes. Since they are talking about how death sentence is more expensive than life sentence in prison. And that answer talks about the costs.
Although the economy began to develop at first, in 1920, a civil war started which caused many bad things for the Russian economy. The government began obsessed with overtaking the westerners and this <span>caused the economy to suffer and caused economic disintegration, isolation, and famine.</span>
The answer that best summarizes the central idea of the excerpt is Although Miep Gies never considered herself a hero; after the war, many other people did.
This excerpt describes some details about how Miep Gies helped Jews to hide from the Nazi movement and how she never saw her action as anything extraordinary which re-enforce the idea that she never considered herself a hero.
We don't have any other elements of information in this excerpt to select the other options as the correct answer.
