A truck driver who expressed a hatred of Jews has been found guilty of killing 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Robert Bowers has been convicted after he barged into a synagogue and shot everyone he could find in an act ofThe guilty verdict was expected after his own lawyers admitted from the beginning of the trial that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, 2018 in the deadliest attack on Jews inBowers now faces the death penalty as jurors must decide whether he should be sentenced to life in prison without parole or sent to death row as the federal trial moves...
His lawyers had offered a guilty plea in return for a life sentence but prosecutors refused, opting instead to take the case to trial and pursue the death penalty.Robert Bowers carried out the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history Reading the names of each of the 11 victims he killed, prosecutor Mary Hahn asked the jury to ‘hold this defendant accountable… and hold him accountable for those who cannot testify’.
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