A U.S. judge imposed five death sentences on a man convicted of killing five minorities, including a Jewish woman, during a shooting spree last year. In addition to his Jewish neighbor, Richard Scott Baumhammers murdered two Asian men, an Indian man and a black man in Pittsburgh in April 2000.
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