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1-They'll kill him, like his brother.
2-They'll kill him like his brother.
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The first sentence says that they killed him and that they are going to kill his brother. The second sentence says (possibly) that they will kill him in the same manner that they killed his brother. Neither sentence has a relative clause. In the first sentence, "like" functions as a conjunction. In the second, it functions as an adverb.
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