"If the highest punishment possible was life imprisonment, we would have demanded that," he said.
Then, with pretzel-shaped logic, he added, "We were demanding the highest punishment possible".
But the highest punishment recommended for officials implicated in the accident is sacking, the report said.
The aggravated life term is the highest punishment in Turkey after it abolished the death penalty in 2002, and means maximum jail terms with tougher conditions.
So the only reason to include the information about SAC's compliance is to build the case for a higher punishment of the firm while blunting public claims that prosecutors have ignored its extensive compliance measures in pursuing charges against the firm.
Although the most likely scenario is when higher punishment rates call for tax reductions in order to fulfil the government budget, the results obtained in this section for the impact of higher relative punishments of informal activities on producer wages, tightness, search, employment, and unemployment rates do not depend on this assumption.
All the results derived in Propositions 1 to 6 account for this special case, including the now clear-cut result that higher punishment fees, or a general increase in the audit rate, encourage more workers to educate themselves.
Nebraska's bill would replace the death penalty with life without parole as the highest punishment.
While some bloggers wanted Mollah to be sentenced to death, which is the highest punishment in Bangladesh, Ahmed demanded a fair trial eventually leading to 100, 200 or 300 years in prison.
