I'm doing a report where we pick a statement about Mary Queen of Scots, we can write about if she deserved to die or if she was wrongfully executed, I chose she deserved to die and was wondering what were some reasons why she did not deserve to be executed by Elizabeth I.
For many English Catholics, Mary represented everything good about Catholic England. Her execution and the defeat of the movement to place her on the throne set back English Catholics from achieving political power until more liberal attitudes became common in parliament, which was largely Protestant under Elizabeth's Church of England. Even then, the culture of England veered away from Catholicism, and Jacobites migrated to the Americas where they participated in the settlement, colonialization and creation of cities like Charlestown in Boston - which were unique as an area where the heritage of the Catholic kings and queens of the United Kingdom interpreted the execution of her as 'when England went wrong.'