The jury unanimously agreed Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, will receive the death penalty.
Robert Bowers—the man convicted of killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018—will face the death penalty after a Pennsylvania jury agreed he should be executed after carrying out the deadliest attack on Jewish people in U.S. history.worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Jurors spent two days deliberating before they announced they reached a consensus.
During the first day of deliberations on whether Bowers should face the death penalty, the jury asked two questions of the court,CNN, asking to examine the guns used in the shooting and for a copy of documents in evidence about Bowers’ family history.Key Background On October 27, 2018, Bowers killed 11 people and injured six others when he opened fire on a crowd of worshipers using an AR-15 style rifle at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. In June, he wason all 63 charges, including 11 counts of hate crimes causing death, 11 counts of using a firearm to commit murder during and in relation to a violent crime and 11 counts of obstruction of the exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death.
the Gun Violence Archive. Also, that year, 17 students and staff were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.This was the second federal death penalty case to be prosecuted under President Joe Biden, who is generally opposed to the death penalty. The first case concerned a terrorist who drove a U-Haul into pedestrians and cyclists in New York City in 2017, killing eight people and injuring dozens more.
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