{"id":617777,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/617777/?format=json","text_counter":227,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":981,"legal_name":"Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua","slug":"priscilla-nyokabi-kanyua"},"content":"In our country, if two robbers go into a household, whether they use violence or not, they will be arrested for robbery with violence. It is a law which should be re-visited by this House at some point in time. Our law assumes that a robber must be alone. So, when the robbers are two, they are taken to stroke 2. When they go to stroke 2 with the trials that we have without sufficient legal advice, many of them are subjected to a trial that sends them straight to the death penalty without them ever understanding what it is that they are facing. The court sometimes gives them a lawyer at the Court of Appeal, but that would be too late because a lot of the evidence already would have been accumulated."}