The man accused of murdering 11 Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh faces the possibility of the death penalty as a federal trial gets under way.The trial began on Tuesday in a court in downtown Pittsburgh, with lawyers for the accused gunman, Robert Bowers, acknowledging that he planned the 2018 massacre that shook the country and became the deadliest act of anti-Semitic violence in US history.In her opening statement, defence lawyer Judy Clarke said that Bowers went to the Tree of Life synagogue and “shot every person he saw” in pursuit of what she said was an “unthinkable, nonsensical, irrational thought that by killing Jews he would attain his goal”.
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