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White supremacist Hardy Lloyd Pittsburgh arrested synagogue shooter faces harsh conditions on federal death row
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By David Rullo | Senior Staff Writer
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vowed white supremacist and antisemite Hardy Lloyd has been arrested again. Lloyd, formerly of Dormont, was taken into custody on Aug. 10 in West Virginia after the FBI filed a complaint against him in the Northern District of West Virginia. Agents arrested him at his home in Follansbee, West Virginia, on charges of obstruction of justice, interstate threats and witness tampering regarding the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s trial. The trial ended on Aug. 3 after two months of testimony when the jury imposed the death penalty on the shooter. The FBI said Google initially alerted agents to Lloyd’s activities in March, when he began making comments on YouTube about killing “jews and cops” and referring viewers to his website. Lloyd, who often adds the misnomer “Reverend” to his name, sent mass emails — including to members of the press — threatening Jews and others if the synagogue shooter was found guilty. Once the shooter was convicted, Lloyd threatened community
members and the jury if he was sentenced to death. U.S. District Judge Robert Colville has sealed the names of jurors permanently. The FBI said one of Lloyd’s mass emails, titled “Stickering Pgh for Robert Bowers Trial,” stated, in part: “Remember, jurors, we WILL be watching and we WILL be taking pictures of ALL cars and people who leave the courthouse. It’s 100% LEGAL to do this, too!” Lloyd went further on his website’s “enemies” page. The FBI cited the following message: “If anyone has the doxing info, legally, for the 70 jurors on the Richard [sic] Bowers trial in Pgh, send to us we can legally post said PUBLIC INFO as a useful guide to keep the trial honest. Oh, and we WILL be filing at country records for their names and home/work addresses to LEGALLY POST after the trial is over. Which is keeping with PA state laws regarding doxing of Jurors post trial via PUBLIC INFO!! Y’all who are on the jury, make sure to vote what you know in your heart is morally correct. :) :) FREE RICHARD [sic] BOWERS, CITY OF
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ife is about to get much harder for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. Convicted of 22 capital offenses and 41 other charges, the man who murdered 11 members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community as they celebrated Shabbat on Oct. 27, 2018, most likely will be housed at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. The prison complex includes low-, medium- and maximum-security units. In 1993, it was designated as the site where federal death row sentences would be carried out and includes the Special Confinement Unit for men on federal death row. Nicknamed “Guantanamo of the North,” Terre Haute’s death row holds a mixture of terrorists, serial killers, white supremacists and child molesters, according to The Week magazine. It’s where the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed. It is also where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black church
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