b. severe
Explanation:
Dracon's laws were a set of laws whose wording occurred around 620 BC and where, for almost all crimes, the same penalty was applied, that is, the death penalty, making clear its characteristic severity and intransigence. The provisions had to be strictly followed, always applied by a magistrate named "tesmoteta", which prevented the eupatric nobles from interpreting the laws according to their interests.
Characterized by its impartiality, Dracon's laws were essentially considered very severe legislation. Thus the term "draconian" would soon become popular, used to qualify the norm that exacerbates punitive rigor. According to Aristotle, Dracon was tasked with drafting the criminal code that was already in force but had not yet been put in a written form, so the violent character of the laws does not correspond only to a particular characteristic of Draccon's way of thinking, but reflects a more barbaric period of Greek history and tradition.
