Officials are seeking the death penalty against Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers, federal prosecutors have announced.

Scott Brady, US attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, late Sunday announced the state’s intention to seek Bowers’ execution.

Ultimately, the decision rests with the Department of Justice and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a statement by Brady.

President Trump, who appointed Sessions, has already expressed support for an expeditious execution.

“When people do this, they should get the death penalty. And they shouldn’t have to wait years and years,” the president told reporters Sunday.

Bowers is charged with 29 criminal counts, including 11 counts of murder, after he burst into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, shouting anti-Semitic vitriol, and shot dead 11 people. It was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack on US soil, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

He was released Monday from Allegheny General Hospital and was scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate later in the afternoon.

The commonwealth’s last execution was by lethal injection in 1999, according to the state Department of Corrections.

The first victims’ funerals were planned for Tuesday.

With Post wires

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