Peter Smith

May 15, 2024 | oskaloosa.com | Peter SMith |Heather Hollingsworth |Peter SMith |Peter Smith

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for his proclamations of conservative politics and Catholicism on Saturday, but he received a standing ovation from graduates and other attendees of the May 11 commencement ceremony at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

May 15, 2024 | beloitdailynews.com | Peter SMith |Heather Hollingsworth |Peter SMith |Peter Smith

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for his proclamations of conservative politics and Catholicism on Saturday, but he received a standing ovation from graduates and other attendees of the May 11 commencement ceremony at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

Aug 6, 2023 | argus-press.com | Peter Smith |Peter Smith |Michael Rubinkam

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The gunman who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers will be sentenced to death for perpetrating the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, a jury decided Wednesday.

Aug 4, 2023 | messenger-inquirer.com | Peter Smith |Peter Smith |Michael Rubinkam

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the perpetrator of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Robert Colville ordered death by lethal injection for Robert Bowers, a 50-year-old truck driver whose vicious antisemitism led him to shoot his way into a place of worship and target people for practicing their faith.

Aug 3, 2023 | bendigoadvertiser.com.au | Peter Smith |Peter Smith

The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue has been formally sentenced to death, after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the perpetrator of the deadliest attack on Jews in US history. Grieving families confronted Bowers in court before Colville pronounced the sentence, describing the pain and suffering he had inflicted, and calling him evil and cowardly.