How self-styled ‘lawyers’ help 1,457 inmates escape hangman’s noose

Alloisse Onyango Odhiambo, former death row convict during the interview on Wednesday in Nairobi. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Hunting like a pack of jackals which relentlessly pursues its prey until it is exhausted and helpless, scores of convicted death row prisoners have perfected the act of filing petitions across the country. 

Guided by self-trained paralegals, these ‘guerrilla like’ tactics have finally borne fruit for 1,457 convicts majority of whom are now free men and women who had initially been condemned to die for either murder or robbery with violence. Their cases have been reheard and they have been re-sentenced.