Synagogue attack defendant says offer of plea would end case – U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh notified it pursues death penalty against shooter for deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history; attacker wants to plead guilty in return for life sentence | Ynetnews

Lawyers for the man accused of shooting to death 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue last year said in a filing Tuesday that the case would be over if federal prosecutors had accepted his offer to plead guilty in return for life-without-parole.
Lawyers for Tree of Life shooting defendant Robert Bowers made the statement in a response to prosecutors’ proposal to start trial in mid-September 2020.