Tree of Life Synagogue
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.
The man who called Jews “the children of Satan” potentially faces the death penalty.
Jurors heard from a woman who lay still next to her dying 97-year-old mother.
The judge overruled the defense’s attempt to limit the number of grisly crime-scene photos the prosecution could present, though directed the jury not to let the photos prejudice them.
“Our intelligence unit, detectives and patrol officers are closely monitoring him and take any possible threat extremely seriously,” the Pittsburgh public safety department told JNS.
The prosecution submitted into evidence a prayer book with a bullet hole.
The lawyer referred to the “irrational motive” and “misguided intent” of the defendant, who has pleaded not guilty to all 63 federal charges.
