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US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the man accused of bursting into a Pittsburgh synagogue last year with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting 11 people to death, according to court papers filed on Monday.
Bowers, 46, shouted “all Jews must die” as he fired on congregants gathered for a Sabbath service at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, authorities said.

Bowers has pleaded not guilty in US District Court in Pittsburgh to a 63-count indictment.
The charges he faces include using a firearm to commit murder and obstruction of free exercise of religious belief resulting in death. Also, he targeted vulnerable people because some of his victims were elderly and showed a lack of remorse, federal prosecutors said in court papers.
Shackled to wheelchair, synagogue gunman Robert Bowers faces court
A lawyer for Bowers, death penalty specialist Judith Clarke, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
The mass shooting followed a rise in the number of hate crimes and the number of hate groups in the United States, according to separate reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Southern Poverty Law Centre.


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US to seek death penalty for accused Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers

A menorah at a memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue, where Robert Bowers killed worshippers in an October 27 shooting. Photo: AP

FILE - This undated Pennsylvania Department of Transportation photo shows Robert Bowers. Bowers is charged with killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The U.S. attorney's office in Pittsburgh filed a notice of intent Monday, Aug. 26, 2019 to seek the death penalty against Bowers in last year's attack. (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP, File)

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Zhang Yingying. Photo: University of Illinois Police Department/AP

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(190708) -- PEORIA (U.S.), July 8, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Wang Zhidong (R), legal adviser to the family of visiting Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying, talks with Steve Beckett, an attorney representing Zhang's family, near the federal courthouse building in Peoria, Illinois, the United States, on July 8, 2019. Sentencing phase for Brendt Christensen, who's ruled by a U.S. jury guilty of kidnapping and killing a visiting scholar from China in 2017, started on Monday at 1:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT) at a federal courthouse in Peoria, U.S. state of Illinois. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)

Brendt Christensen, killer of Zhang Yingying. File photo: Reuters

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Robert Bowers is accused of killing 11 people with a semi-automatic rifle at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27



Robert Bowers is accused of killing 11 people with a semi-automatic rifle at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27.


US to seek death penalty for accused Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers

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Robert Bowers is accused of killing 11 people with a semi-automatic rifle at the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27