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Robert Bowers has been convicted in the killing of 11 worshippers in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Robert Bowers was found guilty on Friday on all counts in the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshippers. Bowers was convicted on all 63 charges, including 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death . Bowers offered to plead guilty if the death penalty was taken off the table, but prosecutors turned him down. The bullet damaged doors of the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh, was entered June 1, 2023, as a court exhibit by prosecutors in the federal trial of Robert Bowers. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania via AP MORE: Pittsburgh synagogue massacre: Remembering the 11 victims The jury deliberated for less than one day. Jurors will next weigh if Bowers should be sentenced to death . Bowers stormed the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, gunning down 11 people in the deadliest antisemitic attack in Amer...

Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley will appear in court where a judge will decide whether he could be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley is set to learn in a court hearing Friday whether he can serve life in prison without the possibility of parole . The hearing -- called a Miller hearing -- is being held due to Crumbley's age. He was just 15 at the time of the shooting, and juveniles convicted of first-degree murder in the state of Michigan cannot automatically be sentenced to life in prison without parole , like adults. A separate hearing will be held in December for his sentencing. MORE: Oxford school shooting victim offers emotional testimony on seeing classmates shot: 'I just prayed' Crumbley pleaded guilty to killing four students and wounding seven others at a Michigan high school in November 2021. The hearing began in July when victims of the Michigan shooting gave emotional testimony in ...

A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison . Jesse Osborne's lawyer asked Judge Lawton McIntosh on Monday to reconsider his sentence so Osborne, now 21, could have some hope of freedom in his 50s or 60s. Attorney Frank Eppes said the judge didn't fully consider a psychologist's report that Osborne's lashed out because of abuse and can be rehabilitated. “Give Jesse some hope to live with,” Eppes said at a televised court hearing. Osborne himself asked for a chance at life outside a prison cell, apologizing to the family of 6-year-old Jacob Hall who he killed and everyone at the s...