Robert Bowers, the suspect in a 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, is going on trial before a jury that could decide whether he will face the death penalty.
is scheduled to get underway Tuesday morning, four and a half years after the shooting deaths of 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue.of more than 200 jury candidates — will hear the case against Robert Bowers. The jurors include 11 women and seven men.Bowers, 50, could face the death penalty if convicted of some of the 63 counts he faces in the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life synagogue building.
As an indication that the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial seems almost a foregone conclusion, Bowers’ defense team spent little time in the jury selection process asking how potential jurors would come to a verdict.Instead the team focused on the penalty phase and how jurors would decide whether to impose the death penalty in a case of a man charged with hate-motivated killings in a house of worship.
Prosecutors are expected to tell jurors about incriminatory statements Bowers allegedly made to investigators, an online trail of antisemitic statements that they say shows the attack was motivated by religious hatred, and the guns recovered from him at the crime scene where police shot Bowers three times before he surrendered.
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