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Veteran JTA reporter tells of his conflicted, emotionally tolling odyssey, from day the 2018 Tree of Life massacre took 11 lives through recent conclusion of the murderer's trial

I had that epiphany every reporter longs for, of a story bigger than the sum of its already major elements.

Ron Kampeas is a veteran reporter. But years of traveling back and forth to Pittsburgh to cover the shooting and its aftermath have taken their toll.

A federal judge formally sentenced Robert Bowers to death on Thursday for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history.

On Wednesday, jurors unanimously agreed upon the sentence of death for the shooting and killing of 11 worshippers inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill on October 27, 2018.

The gunman who massacred 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 was sentenced Wednesday to death, a federal court decision that came nearly five years after the highest-casualty antisemitic attack in the nations history.

(Reuters) -A federal judge formally sentenced Robert Bowers to death on Thursday for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in

By Sabrina Souza and Eric Levenson, CNN

After the jury who sentenced the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter to death was polled, the judge appeared emotional as he thanked the jury.

A federal jury determines Robert G. Bowers deserves capital punishment for the 2018 shooting that was the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.