Jurors listened to closing arguments in the penalty phase of Robert Bowers’s federal trial, held nearly five years after the truck driver perpetrated the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history
A jury is set to deliberate whether to impose the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole on a man who spewed antisemitic hate before fatally shooting 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community.
Bowers raved incessantly on social media about his hatred of Jewish people – using a slur for Jewish people some 400 times on a social media platform favoured by the far right – and remains proud that he killed Jews, the prosecutor reminded jurors, Olshan disputed the defence experts’ diagnosis of schizophrenia, asserting Bowers was not suffering psychosis but had chosen to believe white supremacist rhetoric. And while acknowledging there’s no question that Bowers was a depressed, neglected child, Olshan downplayed the significance of it, noting that Bowers had held jobs, paid bills, and was an otherwise functioning adult.
Olshan played a composite of 911 calls made from inside the synagogue, including audio of people being shot and a survivor’s horrified screams.
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