(File Photo: Source for Photo: Police respond to an active shooter situation at the Tree of Life synagogue on Wildins Avenue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa., on Saturday, October 27, 2018. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Over two years after a jury sentenced the Tree of Life synagogue shooter, Robert Gregory Bowers to death, his attorneys are taking the next step to reverse the decision by seeking a resentencing. Bowers shot and killed eleven people and wounded six others at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27th, 2018. Bowers was sentenced to death in August of 2023. In an almost 500-page appeal, the lawyers of Bowers asked for a new sentencing hearing after accusing the prosecution and the court of “overreach.” They brought up 16 issues, which included jury selection, whether a juror who said they reviewed death sentences and oversaw executions in China should have been seated, and whether two jurors who shared reservations about the death penalty should have been struck.