Pittsburgh rabbi: No death penalty for synagogue shooter

A spiritual leader at one of the three congregations that share the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh has urged US Attorney General William Barr not to seek the death penalty for the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman, JTA reported Wednesday.

Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, whose New Light Congregation lost three worshippers in the October attack by Robert Bowers that killed 11, has written to Barr “as a victim of the attack,” reminding him that “both our religious traditions, yours Catholic and mine Jewish, vigorously oppose the death penalty.”