Robert Bowers
“President Biden’s decision earlier this month to pardon his son may well have set a unique and unfortunate precedent,” the Kentucky senator said on the Senate floor.
The man convicted of killing 11 Jewish worshippers will need to appeal to the Third Circuit Court after an official reply that his case is “baseless.”
Attorneys for the death-row resident again seek to argue that the murders were not driven by antisemitism.
Hardy Carroll Lloyd is accused of trying to influence witnesses and threatening jurors in the trial of the man convicted of killing 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
A federal jury condemned the shooter, who shot and killed 11 Jewish men and women at prayer in synagogue for Shabbat-morning services.
Jurors agreed unanimously that Robert Bowers should be sentenced to death, which the judge is slated to do formally on Aug. 3.
The final witness to testify was the convicted killer’s aunt, who apologized to victims and their loved ones.
Efforts to argue that a diagnosis of schizophrenia was responible for the mass shooting have reached a new extreme.
“She comes home at night from work to an empty house, and he’s not there,” Daniel Kramer said of his widowed sister.
The final stage in the trial of Robert Bowers begins on Monday and will determine if he will be put to death.
The convicted mass murderer told a forensic psychiatrist that even if he is put to death, “the score is still 11 to one.”
In the trial’s death-penalty phase, the defense is focused on Robert Bowers’ mental health.
