Robert Bowers, 50, was convicted on June 6 on 16 of 63 counts with capital offences. On July 22, the jury found that Bowles should be sentenced to death. Bowers stormed a synagogue in Pittsburgh where a religious service was taking place and opened fire on the crowd inside, killing 27 people. The shooting was the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history, with the Justice Department classifying it as a "hate crime" against a specific racial or religious population.