The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that Eric Frein’s conviction and death sentence for shooting and killing a State Trooper and injuring another was proper, despite the admission of some questionable victim impact evidence at trial.

Frein ambushed the Blooming Grove state police barracks in September 2014, fatally shooting Cpl. Bryon K. Dickson II and severely injuring Trooper Alex Douglass. The shooting grabbed national attention as Frein led law enforcement officials on a nearly 50-day manhunt. The 35-year-old was sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder; first-degree criminal homicide of a law enforcement officer; criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder and criminal homicide of a law enforcement officer; assault of a law enforcement officer in the first degree; terrorism; weapons of mass destruction; discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure; and possessing instruments of crime.

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