While responses varied, most emphasized the strength and resilience of Pittsburgh's Jewish community.
It’s not clear why the jury wanted to see the weapons, but in weighing a death sentence, one of the statutory aggravating factors jurors must consider is the risk the gunman’s attack posed to others.
The government, on the other hand, is pressing for the death penalty and making the case that Bowers was animated by hate, not delusions.
The defense experts, Park Dietz said Monday, “simply mistook every ordinary widespread white separatist beliefs as delusions because they were not familiar with them.”
We must be clear: These acts of mass violence are simply the tip of the iceberg.
The brain abnormalities are a key part of the defense’s strategy to keep their client, Robert Bowers, off of death row.
A jury has found Robert Bowers guilty of federal hate crimes for killing 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.
The free exercise of religious beliefs “does not include the engagement in good works or conduct that may or may not be part of religious belief,” she said.
Judge Robert Colville dismissed the jury on Wednesday and told jurors to return on Thursday to hear closing arguments, after which the jury will deliberate and deliver its verdict.
The man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting is facing dozens of federal charges.
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