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PITTSBURGH (JTA) — The gunman who murdered 11 Jewish worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue did not suffer from delusions but was spurred by white supremacist radicalization, a storied forensic psychiatrist
Forensic psychiatrist rejects defense argument that gunman Robert Powers be spared death penalty due to mental illness, says his motives rooted in white supremacy
The defense experts, Dietz said Monday, “simply mistook every ordinary widespread white separatist beliefs as delusions because they were not familiar with them.”
The gunman who murdered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue did not suffer from delusions but was spurred by white supremacy, a forensic psychiatrist testified for the prosecution.
The psychiatrist concluded that the shooter does not have schizophrenia or epilepsy, and that he does not suffer from hallucinations or delusions.