Gunman in Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Planned Attack, Defense Acknowledges as Trial Gets Underway

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : The families of those killed are divided over whether the government should pursue the death penalty, but most have voiced support for it.
40% : Bowers, 50, could face the death penalty if convicted of some of the 63 counts he faces in the October 27, 2018, attack, which claimed the lives of 11 worshippers from three congregations who shared the building.
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.
17% : The death penalty trial 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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