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April trial set for man charged in synagogue massacre

FILE - A candle is lit in memory of Irving Younger, one of 11 worshippers killed three years ago when a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, during a Commemoration Ceremony in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. The long-delayed capital murder trial of Robert Bowers in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will begin in April 2023 a federal judge has ruled. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

FILE - This undated Pennsylvania Department of Transportation photo shows Robert Bowers. The long-delayed capital murder trial of Bowers in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will begin in April 2023, a federal judge has ruled. Bowers, a Baldwin resident who has pleaded not guilty, could be sentenced to death if convicted of the shootings. He faces more than 60 federal charges stemming from the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 worshippers in the deadliest attack on Jewish people in U.S. history. (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation via AP, File)

FILE - Two women pause along a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. The long-delayed capital murder trial of Robert Bowers in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre will begin in April, 2023 a federal judge has ruled. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

April trial set for man charged in synagogue massacre