What is the difference between the death penalty and life imprisonment?
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The following excerpt is from United States v. Coke, 404 F.2d 836 (2nd Cir. 1968):
6 This also was the situation in People v. Henderson, supra, 60 Cal.2d 482, 35 Cal. Rptr. 77, 386 P.2d 677. The revolting details of an exceptionally brutal sex murder, as well as a nauseating sexual attack, with a threat to kill, earlier made by the defendant on another woman, afford ample explanation why the jury decided on the death penalty as against the life imprisonment previously imposed by a judge on a guilty plea.
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