I know it is C.
"Any fool can destroy trees....They cannot run away."
Explanation:
Due to the horrible conditions on the Magellan, the passangers on the ship died a horrific death. The ones that did not resort to eating wood starved; the poor passengers caught dieseses that were carried and transferred by rats and feces. The awful conditions on the Magellan makes you ponder if the ship was worth the sacrifice many innocent people on board the Magellan made.
I think the answer is the United States
<span>Public executions didn't work. Many saw it as a time to get drunk
and merry.
As executions increased, more people went to see them. This
is an opportunity for people to commit crime.<span>Ideas about punishments were changing. People thought that the death penalty was wrong.</span></span>