A jury sentenced to death a Pittsburgh man guilty of murder and hate crimes. In April 2000, Richard Scott Baumhammers shot his Jewish neighbor, two men from India, two Asian men and a black man as he drove through the suburbs of Pittsburgh, stopping twice to vandalize synagogues.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.