{"id":149209,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/149209/?format=json","text_counter":475,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee feels very strongly that the death sentence should be removed from our Statutes because of the weaknesses that we have in our institutions. As long as those weaknesses are there, it is not morally right to pass such very harsh sentences and if we have to uphold it, why can we not execute it instead of just leaving a population of around 3,000 people countrywide, who are facing the hangman’s noose? We are leaving them in abeyance, feeding them, clothing them and leaving them idle, maybe, to tutor other criminals. That is because that interaction is there in prisons between death row convicts, those facing life sentences and others with even lesser sentences."}