Butler County community reacts to Bowers’ death sentence
Clergy, local authorities and members of Butler County’s Jewish community expressed the need for continued community engagement and dialogue in the aftermath of the trial of the gunman who murdered 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s historic Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill in October 2018.
Robert Bowers, 50, was formally sentenced Thursday, Aug. 3, a day after the jury returned a death sentence. On Thursday, U.S. Judge Robert Colville pronounced the sentence.
The shooting is the deadliest antisemitic attack in the history of the United States.