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    "id": 212116,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Odoyo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Ochieng Odoyo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion, first, on the 38 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 25, 2007 premise that, indeed, the statistics show that the imposition of the death penalty has in no way reduced crime in this country. Indeed, the more people are beheaded, burnt alive and hanged by the State, the more crime seems to rise. Therefore, the presumption that if we impose the death penalty and kill so many Kenyans, they shall serve as a lesson to the other thugs, so that they desist from committing crime, is a fallacy. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to point out that the late Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka hailed from my constituency, that is, Nyakach Constituency. He, who was accused of planning the attempted and abortive coup of 1982, was---"
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