1.   Defense attorneys also hope the jury will be allowed to consider the lesser charge of murder, which has a punishment range of five years to life in prison.

2.   Jurors were given a punishment range from six months to life in prison.

3.   The conviction for aggravated sexual assault of a child carries a punishment range of five years probation to life in prison.

4.   The guidelines limited judicial discretion to within a specific punishment range and banished parole from the federal system.