A prosecutor has urged jurors to find the gunman behind the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history eligible for the death penalty.
FILE - This undated Pennsylvania Department of Transportation photo shows Robert Bowers. Bowers, the gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, has a very serious mental health history" from childhood and a markedly abnormal brain, a defense expert testified Wednesday, June 28, 2023, in the penalty phase of the killer's trial.
Jurors deliberated for about an hour Wednesday afternoon and will resume Thursday morning. They will decide whether Bowers is eligible for the death penalty — a preliminary stage in the sentencing process, which is in its third week. Burt on Wednesday conceded some aggravating factors — that Bowers created a grave risk of death in carrying out the attack and that several of the victims were vulnerable due to age or mental disability.was impaired by schizophrenia, epilepsy and a delusional belief that he could stop a genocide of white people by killing Jews who help immigrants.
Even if Bowers had schizophrenia or epilepsy, “that would not mean the defendant was incapable of forming the intent to kill,” Song said.“He just believes things that are repugnant,” Olshan said.
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