Time and again, Robert Bowers’ mother was told her young son needed help. When he was an infant, both parents threatened to kill him. When he was a toddler, his speech regressed so much he stopped talking altogether. When he had a rash as a young boy, a doctor thought
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Defense experts used words like psychotic, paranoid, illogical and delusional to describe Robert Bowers. Prosecutors used other words: methodical, calculated, premeditated, intentional. Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, was found guilty last month of killing 11 people as they worshipped at a Squirrel Hill synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018. Before Bowers can be