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In October 2018, an anti-Semitic coward entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and began shooting unarmed Jews, killing 11 in one of the deadliest and cowardly anti-Semitic attacks on US soil. In addition, five police officers and two other individuals were injured.
The shooter, 50, whose name will not be mentioned here, was tried on 63 counts, including hate crimes resulting in death and obstructing the free exercise of religion resulting in death.
The jury deliberated for merely a few hours following closing arguments on Thursday.
The coward initially offered a guilty plea in exchange for a life sentence, as opposed to the death sentences he meted out to the congregants, but federal prosecutors turned him down.
So now jurors need to decide whether the shooter should receive a death sentence of get life in prison without the possibility of parole. Personally, I'd go for curtain number one, because there are enough skinhead cretins in prison to see this piece of human excrement as a hero.
The shooter's lawyers said he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and structural brain impairments. But he was able to maintain a job as a truck driver and understood his actions at the time of his slaughtering of unarmed Jewish congregants.
In a pretrial filing, prosecutors said that the shooter “harbored deep, murderous animosity towards all Jewish people.”
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