{"id":1972194,"date":"2023-07-13T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-eligible-for-death-penalty-jury-decides\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:20:40","slug":"pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-eligible-for-death-penalty-jury-decides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-eligible-for-death-penalty-jury-decides\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury decides Pittsburgh synagogue shooter qualifies for death penalty."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-eligible-for-death-penalty-jury-decides%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooter Eligible for Death Penalty<\/h2>\n<p>The man who gunned down 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nearly five years ago is eligible for the death penalty, a federal jury announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The shooting is considered by authorities to be the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The shooter, whom The Daily Wire will not name in accordance with company policy, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tree-of-life-synagogue-shooter-convicted-on-all-charges-could-face-death-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found guilty<\/a> last month of all 63 counts he was facing, including 11 counts of obstructing the free exercise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tree-of-life-synagogue-shooter-convicted-on-all-charges-could-face-death-penalty\/\" title=\"Synagogue shooter found guilty on all counts, may face death penalty.\">religious beliefs resulting<\/a> in death and 11 counts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspected-buffalo-shooter-faces-hate-crime-and-firearm-charges\/\" title=\"Suspected Buffalo shooter faces hate crime and firearm charges\">hate crimes resulting<\/a> in death.<\/p>\n<p>After two hours of deliberations, the jurors\u2019 verdict was read in front of survivors and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-set-to-be-first-southern-state-to-abolish-death-penalty\/\" title=\"Virginia Set To Be First Southern State To Abolish Death Penalty\">victims\u2019 family members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt has been nearly five years since 11 people were taken from us. They were beloved and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ten-craziest-claims-from-hulus-1619-project-series\/\" title=\"The Ten Craziest Claims From Hulu's \"1619 Project\" Series\">valued family members<\/a>, friends and neighbors. They cannot speak for themselves, and so their family members will speak for them,\u201d said Maggie Feinstein, the director of 10.27 Healing Partnership, a program dedicated to helping survivors of the shooting and those affected by the tragedy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Attorneys representing the shooter asked for a life sentence if he pleaded guilty, but prosecutors, with the support of most of the victims\u2019 families, refused and took the case to trial to pursue the death penalty. The shooter\u2019s lawyers also argued that he was impaired by mental illness and a \u201cdelusional belief system took over his thinking,\u201d dictating that he had to kill Jews to stop a genocide of white people, the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-eligible-for-death-penalty-jury-decides\/\" title=\"Jury decides Pittsburgh synagogue shooter qualifies for death penalty.\">mass murderer killed 11 people<\/a> from three Jewish congregations who gathered at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, 2018. Two other worshipers and five police officers were also wounded by the gunman who unloaded a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three Glock .357 handguns during his attack.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1688648178298000&#038;usg=AOvVaw10v0UGh9BJZV8inaPuI6t7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Jurors to Decide Fate<\/h3>\n<p>Jurors are now expected to hear the gruesome details of how the shooter inflicted pain and trauma on his Jewish victims before they decide if his crime will ultimately result in capital punishment. After hearing arguments from the prosecution and the defense, including possible pleas from the shooter\u2019s family members, the jury must be in unanimous agreement for the death penalty to be carried out.<\/p>\n<p><i>Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh shooter, responsible for killing 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue, may face the death penalty, as decided by a federal jury. After meticulously planning for six months and specifically targeting Jews, the prosecution seeks capital punishment for this heinous act committed nearly five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1972195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}