Why did sam McGee leave tennessee HELP

Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell."

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the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)