Sunday's four-point plan already includes heavier aggravated sentences for minor offences that are terrorist-related.
Prosecutors asked the Istanbul court to sentence the newspaper Cumhuriyet's editor-in-chief, Can Dündar, and Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül, each to a penalty comprising one aggravated life sentence, one ordinary life sentence and 30 years in jail, the Doğan news agency reported.
17 Aggravated sentencing also applies to medicine crimes that harm or kill patients, especially if the intent was for the crimes to be widespread or systematic in nature, which makes them analogous to a crime against humanity.
An aggravated life sentence means tougher conditions, including restricting a prisoner's leisure hours.
Turkish prosecutors demanded life terms for the pair, as well as aggravated life sentences, which impose tougher conditions.
Comparing the four-year sentence for encouraging rioting with the 56-day sentence for racially aggravated comments, Kelcey says sentences vary so much because it "depends on the evil they are directed at".
The concrete cross marking the grave of Duane Howk lists his name, inmate number and date of death in June 2010 but says nothing of the offense for which he was serving a life sentence, aggravated sexual assault of a child.
Facing trial again, Alexander is now looking at a possible 60-year sentence for aggravated assault — three times the original sentence handed down.
Mr. Rivera, who had previously been convicted of aggravated rape and sentenced to 20 years, was found guilty and sentenced to death.
Within 10 months, she was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
