The US has a fair legal system and I would argue that its capital punishment is equally as useless, if not more so. Murderers sit on death row for decades before execution, and they become more celeberties than villans, to some Timothy McVeigh is considered a martyr.

Crime rates in the US do not vary noticebly between states that have or do not have the death penalty. And statistics show that 80% of those on death row are minorities and at least 85% do not have what is considered "normal" intelligence. Many suffer from severe mental disabilities and should be in institutes for the criminally insane not death row.