Pennsylvania Inmate Set To Die For Ambush, Killing Of State Police Corporal
LAPPL News Watch
May 18, 2020
An execution date has been set for convicted cop killer Eric Matthew Frein, but the execution is unlikely to occur next month as scheduled.
State Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel set June 22 as the day of Frein’s execution. However, Gov. Tom Wolf declared a moratorium on executions in February 2015, and Frein’s attorneys intend to seek a stay of execution.
Frein, 37, has been on death row since his conviction in 2017 for the murder of state police Cpl. Bryon Dickson and the attempted murder of Trooper Alex Douglass.
Frein ambushed the troopers outside the Blooming Grove barracks on Sept. 12, 2014. He managed to elude police for weeks before he was captured 48 days later outside an abandoned airport hangar in Pocono Twp.
A jury found Frein guilty of first-degree murder and other charges in April 2017, and a judge sentenced him to death soon after.
2 comments:
I don't know how it works there, but in CA to have a legal execution the governor must sign a death warrant. If the governor does not go along with the program, it ain't gonna happen.
Good.
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