'Justice has been served' - families of victims express relief after synagogue killer sentenced to death

Record ID: 1736248

  • Title: 'Justice has been served' - families of victims express relief after synagogue killer sentenced to death
  • Date: 2nd August 2023
  • Summary: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - OCTOBER 30, 2018) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF TEMPLE RODEF SHALOM SYNAGOGUE WHERE FUNERALS OF SHOOTING VICTIMS CECIL AND DAVID ROSENTHAL ARE TAKING PLACE MENORAH ON SYNAGOGUE MOURNERS LINED UP MOURNERS EMBRACING MOURNERS LINED UP POLICE OFFICERS AT SYNAGOGUE ENTRANCE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - OCTOBER 29, 2018) (REUTERS) PAN FROM POLICE CAR BLOCKING THE STREET TO SYNAGOGUE TO FLOWERS LEFT IN TRIBUTE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD FLOWERS AND CANDLES BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD EXTERIOR OF TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE WITH POLICE CAR OUTSIDE SIGNAGE ON SYNAGOGUE VARIOUS OF STARS OF DAVID WITH NAMES OF VICTIMS
  • Embargoed: 16th August 2023 22:39
  • Keywords: Pittsburgh shooting Robert Bowers Tree of Life synagogue US Attorney antisemitism
  • Location: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
  • City: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA003181202082023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Families of the victims of a deadly Pittsburgh synagogue shooting as well as survivors expressed relief on Wednesday (August 02) after the man responsible was given the death penalty by a federal jury.
    The jury voted to sentence Robert Bowers to death for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
    In June, the jury found Bowers, 50, guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes in the trial held at the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. Bowers was convicted of 63 counts, including 11 counts of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death.
    The jury's decision on Wednesday marks the first time since U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, took office in January 2020 that federal prosecutors have successfully sought and won the death penalty.
    (Production: Ashraf Fahim)
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