A truck driver who spewed hatred of Jews was convicted Friday of storming a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find on a Sabbath morning, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die.
The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers’ lawyers conceded at the trial’s outset that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Jurors must now decide whether the 50-year-old should be sent to death row or sentenced to life in prison without parole as the federal trial shifts to a penalty phase expected to last several weeks.
The only surprise is that it took the jury five hours to come back. Thirty minutes should have been enough, since his attorneys had conceded that he was guilty as fuck.
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Considering there were 63 counts thats only about 5 minutes per count
Likely takes that long to record it and move to the next.
Now how he will he be incarcerated or potentially executed it might
take longer... maybe.
Either way its going to be a hard life what there is left of it.
Eck!
Who funded the lawyer to get to trial in the first place?
Jon, "your tax dollars at work," as the old road signs used to say.
Jones, Jon Jones:
I expect the asswipe was represented by a Public Defender, who hates everything about the man, and yet still spilled his heart and soul into representing him the best he could.
As a former Public Defender, I've been there. If you like gallows humor, hang out with a bunch of Defense attorneys. Be careful though, there is usually a lot of heavy drinking involved.
How about just "Murderer should get death sentence"?
Why does it matter WHO he killed?
Dude was a murderer. Convicted. Should die.
The rest is racist window dressing. As if killing a Jew should be more bad or something.
Murder is murder. Punishment should be the same...if you think otherwise then you are putting one race higher than the other...more valuable than the other.
Which would make you a racist.
I'm sure that isn't what you intended.
If you don't understand that going out to kill people because of their race, gender, religion or similar hate-filled motivation isn't especially pernicious, that suggests to me that you, sir, are part of the problem.
It is terrorism, not just murder.
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