Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Trial Verdict: What Happens Next With The Death Penalty

CBS Pittsburgh

August 3, 2023

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Now that the jury has voted to impose the death penalty, Robert Bowers will likely be headed to the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, more commonly known as federal death row.

Of the 43 federal prisoners sentenced to death in this country, 42 are being held in Terre Haute without the possibility of release, each spending their days alone in a 12-by-7 foot, single-inmate cell, waiting.

Outside the prison walls, stands a small single-story building housing the death chamber with an execution table and restraints. In the last six months of the Trump administration, the government executed 13 prisoners there by lethal injection.

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