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    "id": 211206,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ahenda",
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        "legal_name": "Paddy Ahenda",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, once someone is dead, he can never be rehabilitated. Therefore, the essence of the courts being set up cannot achieve that aim. Since 1985, as I told my good friend, Mr. Wetangula, no Kenyan has been hanged. That is true. Do you know why? This is because since the hangman retired from Kamiti Maximum Prison, the job has been advertised more that ten times now. The Government cannot get a good hangman to employ at the Kamiti Maximum Prison to be hanging people. So, there is no need of having this issue in our statute for a job that no one can take. We cannot, therefore, have it there for the sake of pleasing a few individuals who are opposing this Motion. As Christians, we know - and of course those who subscribe to the Muslim faith - that there is no part in the Bible or even in the Koran which says that anybody who commits a certain offence should be hanged. Jesus said, in the Bible, that when someone slaps you on one cheek, please turn him the other. Jesus did not say that someone who slaps another person should be hanged. That is very unfortunate. A time has come when a chance has been given to the august House to do away, in our penal code, with the death penalty and it has refused to take it. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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