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Pa. Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence In State Trooper Ambush Attack

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's highest court is upholding the death sentence and conviction of a sniper who killed a Pennsylvania state trooper and wounded another outside their barracks.

The state Supreme Court's decision Friday upholds lower court decisions in the case of Eric Frein.

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Frein was convicted in the 2014 murder of Cpl. Bryon Dickson II outside the Blooming Grove barracks. Another trooper, Alex Douglass, was badly wounded.

Frein led authorities on a 48-day manhunt through the rugged Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals caught him at an abandoned airplane hangar.

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He was convicted in 2017 and is on death row.

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