The site of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will soon host the country's first antisemitism museum.
I had that epiphany every reporter longs for, of a story bigger than the sum of its already major elements.
The sentencing hearing comes a day after a jury unanimously voted for the death penalty after finding Bowers guilty on 63 counts.
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.