“The US judicial system is extremely unfair. Thirty eight of the 50 US states carry out the death penalty. By 1 July 2000, there were 3,682 people on death row in the nation, more than 90 percent of whom had been victims of sexual abuse and assault. Most of them were poor, attained low educational levels, were not covered by Medicare services, and had to rely on officially appointed lawyers as they were too poor to pay for their own attorneys. The probability that the death sentences were erroneously meted out was very high.”
