Lawyers for Pittsburgh synagogue defendant admit he carried out deadliest US antisemitic attack

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Prosecutors -- who rejected Bowers' offer to plead guilty in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table -- opened their case by describing the terror he sowed as he moved through the synagogue, opening fire indiscriminately.
42% : The families of those killed are divided over whether the government should pursue the death penalty, but most have voiced support for it.
39% : Instead, they focused on the penalty phase and how jurors would decide whether to impose the death penalty in a case of a man charged with hate-motivated killings in a house of worship.
29% : The death penalty trial, which is being presided over by Judge Robert Colville, is proceeding three years after now-President Joe Biden said during his 2020 campaign that he would work to end capital punishment at the federal level and in states that still use it.

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