The overriding feeling in this city now that the gunman convicted of murdering 11 Jews here in 2018 has been sentenced to death is gratitude. Not for the penalty itself, which was the preference of some but not all of the victims’ families and which some local Jews openly opposed, and not even for the end of a trial whose long delay protracted communal trauma.
Robert Bowers, 50, was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Pittsburgh on Wednesday after his conviction on numerous capital charges stemming from his mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, which killed 11 and injured six in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.
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