“Bowers targeted men and women participating in Jewish religious worship at the Tree of Life Synagogue, located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is home to one of the largest and oldest urban Jewish populations in the United States, in order to maximize the devastation, amplify the harm of his crimes and instill fear within the local, national, and international Jewish communities,” prosecutors said in the Monday filing.
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Law enforcement are positioned outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Oct. 28, 2018.
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Following the El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, shootings earlier this month, Attorney General William Barr announced that the Justice Department would be recommending legislation to Congress that would speed up death penalty proceedings in cases involving mass shooters.
“There will be a strict timetable for judicial proceedings that will allow the imposition of the death sentence without undue delay,” Barr said in remarks to a law enforcement conference. “Punishment must be swift.”
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