so, does Sweden resembles demographically and historically the US? well, maybe parts of Minnesota does, but not much else.
logically you just can't make universal assumptions by comparing "apples" and "oranges".
I don´t know how much about Sweden you do know, but why you would compare it to Minnesota, I have no idea. Somewhat amusing, though.
What I was saying is that there isn´t a direct connection between death penalty and a lower crime rate, because then we would have a high crime rate (which we don´t)