A popular jury decided this Wednesday to sentence to death the author of the shooting that killed eleven people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) in 2018, considered the largest anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United States, local media reported.

After a deliberation of more than ten hours, the jury voted unanimously to send Robert Bowers to death row, a decision that is binding on the judge who must sign the sentence.

The jury is the same that last June found the shooter guilty of all 63 charges against him, including the hate crime, which in Pennsylvania can carry the death penalty. After that phase, the jury had to decide whether to ask the judge to impose life imprisonment or capital punishment, an option for which he finally opted.

According to CNN, this is the first death sentence to be imposed by a federal jury since Joe Biden was president of the United States.

Bower, a Pittsburgh resident, stormed the Tree of Life synagogue, where members of three Jewish congregations were holding Sabbath activities, on Oct. 27, 2018, and began firing indiscriminately while chanting, “All Jews must die.” .

The shooting caused eleven deaths and another six wounded and became the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United States.

During the trial, the defense tried to argue that Bowers, who is now 50 years old, suffers from mental problems, but the jury determined that he had a precise plan to murder Jews.