The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue has been formally sentenced to death, one day after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the perpetrator of the deadliest attack on Jews in United States history.US District Judge Robert Colville on Thursday (early Friday AEST) imposed the sentence on Robert Bowers, a 50-year-old truck driver whose vicious antisemitism led him to shoot his way into a place of worship and target people for practicing their faith."I have nothing specific that I care to say to Mr Bowers," Colville said, before issuing the formal sentence.
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