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The Sobering Truth About Robert Bowers
On Wednesday, the judge in the case announced that the jury had decided unanimously that the gunman should be sentenced to death. The relatives and survivors of the attack had themselves been quite divided about whether or not they were seeking a death sentence. And so Robert Bowers will be put to death. I mean, we should say it's not going to be immediate. What then follows is years, possibly even decades of appeals and process as it will go through higher and higher courts. It prompted just two sort of thoughts with me. Israel abolished the death penalty for murder in 1954. It was handed down only twice in the history of the country. But essentially, Israel being slightly an exception in the Middle