{"id":149208,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/149208/?format=json","text_counter":474,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Finally, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important for this House to consider--- I know there have been attempts before to consider a legislation that does away with the death sentence. If that legislation is considered and the death sentence is banned--- As a country that is progressing towards the developing countries, we need to take precedence from other countries. Considering the fact that our judicial institutions have certain weaknesses; considering the fact that many Kenyans have been crying about police reforms, some of the convicts who end up facing the hangman – who is not there – are people who failed to have a competent lawyer because of poverty. Therefore, they are left at the mercy of the weaknesses that we have in our institutions. There was one very clear case in Kamiti of a boy who is now facing the hangman’s noose because he stole a loaf of bread. He has been there and has exhausted all the machineries of appeal. Such a case, which was considered to be robbery with violence, may not necessarily be under that category because it is something petty. But, unfortunately, there he is!"}