THE NATIONAL NEWS
The gunman who killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will be sentenced to death, roughly four and a half years after carrying out the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history.
A Pittsburgh jury reached a verdict at 11.15am local time on Wednesday, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
Robert Bowers stormed into the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, where members of the three congregations that shared the synagogue were meeting.
Members of the Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life congregations were all killed in the attack. Two other worshippers and five responding police officers were wounded during the shooting.
According to evidence during the trial, Bowers told police at the synagogue that “all these Jews need to die”. Before the attack, he disseminated or liked anti-Semitic content on a far-right social media platform.
