Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooter guilty on all charges, could receive death penalty

[BeckyDem]

BY NICK ROBERTSON - 06/16/23 11:54 AM ET


The man who killed 11 worshipers in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 was found guilty Friday of federal hate crime charges.

A jury will now decide if Robert Bowers will receive the death penalty for committing the most deadly antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Sentencing is scheduled for June 26.

Bowers, 50, opened fire on worshipers at Tree of Life on the morning of Oct. 17, 2018; an additional two attendees and five police officers were injured in the attack. Bowers surrendered after being shot multiple times by police.

His defense has never claimed his innocence but rather sought to convince the jury to spare his life. His attorneys repeatedly offered a guilty plea on all charges in exchange for life in prison, but federal prosecutors chose to go forward with the trial.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4051346-pittsburgh-tree-of-life-synagogue-shooter-guilty-of-hate-crimes-could-receive-death-penalty/


( Sick with hate. )

[JT45242]

1. A lot of money spent on a trial that could have gone elsewhere

A plea deal for life without parole, and even tack on ineligible for a pardon, would have saved millions for victim relief and work combatting antisemitism and white supremacists.

I am against the death penalty...the added cost doesn't achieve its goals.

The state sanctioned murder of this hate filled goon will make him a martyr to the white supremacists cause. That is to say, it's not a deterrent.

Locking him in a cell in obscurity to rot away forever, prevents him from ever committing another crime and doesn't rally the hate filled crowds around him.

[Best_man23]

2. I'm vexed on this relative to the upcoming sentence

Part of me wants him executed ASAP. I'm thinking the reason he chose to go to trial is somewhere in his diseased ass (place where his brain cell resides) he thinks the Insurrectionist will one day pardon if he gets back in the WH.

The other part of me wants him spared if killing this piece of fetid flesh would somehow turn him into a martyr in the brain cells of the other pieces of fetid flesh on the Far Reich.

Signing off with the quote: "In Republican Politics, it is an asset to be a criminal."