The perpetrator of a 2018 armed attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue, the deadliest against Jews in US history, was sentenced to death on Wednesday (August 2nd) by a federal jury, media reports Americans. The twelve members of the jury voted unanimously in favor of capital punishment against Robert Bowers. This white driver was found guilty in mid-June of having perpetrated 11 murders with aggravating circumstances on October 27, 2018 in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in the northeastern United States.
This sentence should then be formally pronounced by a federal judge. However, since the Department of Justice has instituted a moratorium on federal executions, this sentence may not be carried out.
