Global Courant 2023-05-26 18:51:21
Jury selection ended Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history.
Prosecutors and the defense have agreed on a panel of 12 jurors and six alternatives who will hear evidence against 50-year-old Robert Bowers in the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue massacre.
Prosecutors demand the death penalty. Testimony is expected to begin Tuesday.
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Jury selection began on April 24, with both sides scrutinizing dozens of potential jurors for their views on the death penalty. The jury consists of 11 women and 7 men.
This is the Federal Courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh on April 24, 2023. Jury selection in the trial of Robert Bowers has been completed. Bowers is accused of murdering 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Bowers faces 63 counts of the October 27, 2018 attack, including 11 counts of obstruction of the free exercise of religion resulting in death and 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death. Prosecutors have said Bowers made anti-Semitic remarks at the scene of the attack and online.
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Bowers, a truck driver from Baldwin, a Pittsburgh suburb, had offered to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, but federal prosecutors turned him down. Bowers’ lawyers also recently said he has schizophrenia and brain disorders.
