That's a very good question. I can't answer that. All I can say is that we all know that most of the offences in the code do not have a maximum life sentence, so we're very much limited. One can certainly impliedly reach the conclusion you just did. Further than that, I cannot say. I agree wholeheartedly with your suggestion there. I can't understand why the next step down from life imprisonment is 14 years. Why that particular benchmark was used, I cannot say.
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