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Posted on 08/02/2023 9:34:25 AM PDT by lightman
A jury has sentenced Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers to death for his crimes.
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Colville read the verdict about 11:45 a.m. Jurors had been deliberating since about 9 a.m. Tuesday and signaled they’d reached a verdict at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday.
When Bowers shot out the front window of the building Oct. 27, 2018, three congregations were preparing for services: Tree of Life, Dor Hadash, and New Light.
Twenty-two people were inside the monolith at the corner of Shady and Wilkins.
Half were killed: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger.
“I hope that today’s sentencing decision in the synagogue shooting case marks a step forward toward healing for our community,” Mayor Ed Gainey said in a statement immediately after the verdict. “I hope that we can use this decision to start a new chapter that uplifts and protects our city’s Jewish community.”
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
This will truly be a Sophie's Choice moment whether or not to continue the death penalty moratorium enacted by his predecessor.
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4.5 years for a sentence, then another likely 15 years on death-row is NOT “justice.”
I have never understood that hatred of Jews.
Has always made zero sense to me.
SPJNK.
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This is a federal trial and a federal death penalty. Not sure that the governor will have much say in the matter.
The sentence was passed in a Federal court. The state governor has no say in the matter.
Beat me by 4 seconds. I type too slow.
Correct. He may have punched his one-way ticket to Terre Haute, Indiana where Tim McVeigh spent his final days.
Sadly it should have not taken this long for a trail and conviction. He should be put to death immediately.
He should be put to death immediately. No appeal right. the victims did not have any appeal rights.
In California it's about 30 years on death row.
I think a lot of it is envy. Jews have a higher IQ than average, and they tend to work hard, stay together, and help out one another out. All four lead to success. They help to contribute to the narrative of white privilege which is just sophisticated jargon for envy.
One wonders if they would have received the death penalty if it was a predominately white Christian church? Would the Feds even have been involved?
Here in California we have a few men who were sentenced to death in the early 1980’s and they’re still appealing.
Look up Ricardo Sanders. Gunned down several people in a restaurant robbery in 1980 after herding them into a walk-in refrigerator.
Why? Because I firmly oppose all "hate crime" laws. He deserves to die not because they were Jews...or because it was a synagogue...but because they were human beings who he deliberately killed without justification.
And BTW...the Governor as no say in this case.It's Federal.
No, but whenever he dies, justice will be done.
And God doesn’t mess around.
I’m as frustrated as the next conservative person about the corruption of the *justice* system here in the US and I would LOVE to see some actual, real time justice done now. But practically speaking, it would take an act of God to change this country so that that could happen.
Hemorrhoids and Hornets... firefall for the baal worshippers... and hang ‘em high Haman events...
God-Quantum level interventions... they do happen, and they are effective. God knows how to go kinetic... specifically and effectively
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