To which theme does the following passage most closely connect?
Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. Them that will not confess will hang. Twelve
are already executed, the names of these seven are genout, and the village expects to see them die this morning. Postponement now speaks a
foundering on my part, reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now. While I speak God's law, I will not crack its voice with
whimpering. If retaliation is your fear, know this I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt
the resolution of the statutes
O Witchcraft
O The broken authoritarian theocracy
O Personal integrity over reputation
O The devil as a weapon of personal gain