larry madowo, thank you. here in the united states in just a few hours, court will reconvene in pittsburgh to formally impose a death sentence on robert bowers. it represents a milestone on the long road to justice for the victims of the anti-semitic massacre. danny freeman has the story. reporter: after more than nine weeks of trial, over 100 witnesses and nearly five years since the shooting, a jury of five men and seven women unanimously voted to sentence robert bowers to death. the jury deliberated for ten hours. today was the hardest day. and i think it was the hardest day for the jury too. it was a hard day for the judge. i m sure everyone here as we move on and see justice the justice system work and just thankful for the jurors doing what they did.
this is largely the response from republicans in the house and republican presidential candidates with the exception of chris christie, asa hutchinson, and will hurd, attacking the justice department instead of talking about the allegations made in the indictment. what s your response? it s not my response, i m not responding to them, i m speaking, as i always have, with or without them. the rule of the law is central to our democracy. the fact that the former president was always attacking the rule of law in our country, and now these these guys are parroting that. shame on them. shame on them. but, again, let s not talk about them. let s just talk about our constitution, our country, our respect of the rule of law. and by the way, while he was undermining the rouule of law, was undermining a pillar of our
he s been fingerprinted and processed more recently in the case of florida. all of this should happen very quickly. and then we expect that the judge will start setting up a timeline, which the justice department wants to happen, obviously, before the 2024 election. something that i think is very, very possible. what we know about the judge assigned to hear this case? because i believe she s had some pretty strong dealings with january 6th defendants. reporter: she has. and look, the judge is a jamaican born obama appointee. she s been on the bench since 2014. like a lot of the judges there, they dealt with this violence at the capital, right across the way from the federal courthouse. they have been processing a lot of the january 6th defendants in that courthouse. one of the things that she and others have said is, you know, essentially that people who carried out this assault on american democracy needed to
shooter robert bowers to death. the jury deliberated for ten hours. today was the hardest day. i think it was the hardest day for the jury, too. it was a hard day for the judge. i m sure everyone here, as we move on and see justice, the justice system work, just thankful for the jurors doing what they did. as the verdict was read, survivors of the shooting hugged each other in the courtroom. the judge presiding over the case choked up as he thanked the jury. 50-year-old bowers only briefly looked up at the jurors as they affirmed their death penalty decision. returning a sentence of death is not a decision that comes easy, but we must hold accountable those who wish to commit such terrible acts of anti-semitism, hate and violence. the verdicts include a stunning rebuke of the defense s core arguments to spare bowers
have their day in court and needed to make sure that they paid the consequences for what they did. and so you can see that s going to hang over this case as it goes forward. the indictment lays out six co-conspirators. it doesn t name them, but we figured out who five of the six are. they haven t been charged. what does that mean, and do we expect them to face charges in the future? very likely, jake, that these people could face charges very, very soon. and look, we know as you pointed out, five of the six, we know rudy giuliani of course, john eastman, sidney powell, jeffrey clark, all of these guys were sintegral in this effort to pressure state officials and legislators, to pressure the congress to make sure find a way for donald trump to remain in power. what the justice department did with this charge i m sorry, with this indictment, it put them on notice that this investigation is continuing, and