Lawyers for Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooter Robert G. Bowers said he has mental conditions and brain impairments that make him ineligible for the death penalty.
The defense team for Robert G. Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, Pa., told jurors that he has a history of suicide attempts and was institutionalized as the result of mental conditions that cause him to struggle to make rational decisions. Bowers wasrelated to the mass killing on Oct. 27, 2018, which authorities said was the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
“The bottom line here is that you will hear from various experts who tell you that the structure and the function of Mr. Bowers’s brain is impaired in many respects,” Burt told the jury. Those impairments, he added, mean Bowers did not act with a sufficient level of intent under federal law to be subject to the death penalty.If the jury does not find unanimously that Bowers should be sentenced to die, he will automatically be sentenced to life in prison without parole under federal law.
The arguments — coming during the first day of a portion of the trial that could last up to six weeks — offered the first extended preview of the defense team’s strategy. During the first phase of the trial, which resulted in Bowers’s conviction, the man’sAdvertisement
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