Jury Hands Death Penalty to Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter in Historic Move

Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, has been handed a death sentence by jurors in a historic decision that marks the first federal death penalty handed down under the Biden administration.

A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on July 13, 2023. Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo

Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, has been handed a death sentence by jurors in a historic decision that marks the first federal death penalty handed down under the Biden administration.

A federal jury on Aug. 2 voted unanimously to recommend that the 50-year-old Mr. Bowers be put to death for killing 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018.