The answer is lamps this was easy
The narrator from the house of Usher from Edagr Allan Poe, describes Usher's own work of art as:
D. as intense, ghastly, and inappropriate
here we have a quotation from the short story where we read the description of the painting:
A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth. No outlet was observed in any portion of its vast extent, and no torch, or other artificial source of light was discernible; yet a flood of intense rays rolled throughout, and bathed the whole in a ghastly and inappropriate splendour.
The purpose to it is technically the death penalty is higher then wasting way in prison if you were charged with a serious crime then yeah you'd be condemned to death! <span />
Answer:
When a person prefers an idea over another idea without giving the other idea a chance