Crime was ardently followed by punishment. Elizabethans had devised various ways to fine, humiliate, torture, and kill offenders. Which crime was punishable by death ?

A. Stealing a horse

B. Public drunkenness

C. Skipping church on Sunday

D. A woman screaming at her husband in public

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