The federal trial of the man who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue will move to its final phase next week, after the jury on Thursday found that the crimes the defendant has been convicted of committing were eligible for the death penalty.
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PITTSBURGH (JTA) — To try to save his client from the death penalty, a lawyer defending the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter spent hours this week pressing a prominent psychiatrist on a
Defense lawyers, hoping to avoid death sentence for gunman Robert Bowers, argue his antisemitic beliefs were a manifestation of mental illness; expert witness rejects notion