[lightman]

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Will Pennsylvania's third Jewish Governor make an exception to the capital punishment moratorium?

[Getready]

Ya think a news organization could stop advertising while it brings you the news.

I want to see all the anti death penalty morons start mouthing off now. Gavin, we are waiting for your opinion. Calling little Georgie Gascon....Alvin braggart...where art thou?

[fella]

Another open and shut case that should have been over and done with in 2 weeks if we had swift justice. Instead the courthouse crowd has drug this out at the expense of the taxpayer.

[zeestephen]

Was this a federal hate crime trial?

The article mentions a U.S. Attorney, but does not specifically refer to a federal trial.

Strange - outside of Texas and Florida, Federal courts are almost the only place you can still get a death penalty that will eventually be enforced.

[Verginius Rufus]

If he does get the death penalty, he'll probably be 80 before it is inflicted. Since the governor of Pennsylvania is Jewish, he probably won't rush to commute a death sentence to life in prison.

Apparently the defense attorney tried to argue that the killings were because he was upset over a group's advocacy for immigration rather than because he is an anti-Semite--a feeble argument but hard to do better when the facts in the case were so obvious.