MADRID, 2 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A federal jury in Pittsburgh has sentenced this Wednesday to death Robert Bowers, author of the massacre in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, which resulted in the death of 11 people and is considered the worst anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United States. Joined.
Jurors have spent close to 10 hours deliberating their decision, as it had to be unanimous to impose the death penalty or else Bowers would receive life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“He turned an ordinary Saturday into the worst anti-Semitic mass shooting in American history and he’s proud of it,” US Attorney Eric Olshan said in closing arguments on Monday, CNN reported.
Bowers was convicted in June of 63 federal charges, including multiple murder and a hate crime. The 50-year-old man opened indiscriminate fire inside the synagogue shouting “all Jews must die” with an AR-15 assault rifle and three pistols that he was carrying.
The massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, located in a historically Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh, also left another six injured, including four police officers, and is the deadliest massacre against Jews in the United States.
Bowers, who lived in a suburb of the city, posted anti-Semitic comments on his social media, including a post on the morning of the shooting in which he denounced the work of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish charity in the United States.
