THE gunman who killed 11 Jews in the worst anti-semitic attack in US history was sentenced to death today.

A judge formally issued the sentence after the federal jury which convicted Robert Bowers over the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue recommended he be executed on Wednesday.

It is the first federal death sentence imposed since Joe Biden became president. His Justice Department has placed a moratorium on federal executions, though US states have continued to carry them out.

Attack survivor Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said that Wednesday had been a “day of love” in the Hebrew calendar and “I don’t believe in coincidences. Today we received an immense embrace from the halls of justice.

“We have the right to practice our Judaism, and no-one will ever take that right away from us.”

The family of 97-year-old Rose Mallinger, who was killed in the attack, and her daughter, Andrea Wedner, who was shot and wounded, thanked the jurors and said “a measure of justice has been served.”

Bowers blasted his way into Tree of Life on October 27 2018, and killed members of the Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life congregations, which shared the synagogue building.

He posted a stream of anti-semitic abuse on social media platform Gab ahead of the attack and told police who arrested him: “All these Jews need to die.”

He has not expressed remorse since, telling psychiatrists he is a soldier in a race war and wishes he had killed more people.

Martin Gaynor, a Dor Hadash member and attack survivor, said that anti-semitism is on the rise in the US.