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    "id": 212125,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 215,
        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving this opportunity to support this Motion. Section 71(1) of our Constitution states as follows:- \"No person shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offense under the Law of Kenya of which he has been convicted.\" That Section is the one that gives authority for people's lives to be taken upon conviction for crimes specified in our laws. We have been singing in this House, and in this country, in various fora, including workshops and symposia, that it is high time that this country re-considered the issue of the death penalty. Studies have shown that no matter how seriously, or how sympathetic we may be to the victims of some of the crimes for which the death penalty is prescribed, it, really, does not pay to take a person's life. I am speaking as a person who has tried people, convicted and sentenced them to death - to hang by the neck till they die - but I am happy that since the time I got the authority and power to 40 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 25, 2007 pass this kind of sentence, this country has not experienced even a single execution. Therefore, I keep praying that those whom I had occasion, in due execution of the law, to sentence to hang by the neck till they die will not have to die, because I fully support the argument that it is not fair that we should take people's lives. We must---"
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