PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter is eligible for the death penalty, a jury decided Thursday, setting the stage for the trial to move forward to the next phase where jurors will ultimately decide whether he gets sentenced to death.
The jurors — seven women and five men — deliberated for about two hours over the course of two days. They signaled to U.S. District Judge Robert J. Colville about 9:30 a.m. that they’d reached a verdict.
Robert Bowers, 50, was convicted June 16 of all 63 federal charges against him. Twenty-two of those charges are capital offenses.
