
A jury is weighing whether to sentence the man convicted of killing 11 Jewish worshipers and wounding six other people at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 to the death penalty or life in prison. The attack is the deadliest antisemitic assault in U.S. history.
Robert Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, Pa., was found guilty on 63 federal counts in June, including 11 counts of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. Of those, 22 counts carried the possibility of the death penalty.