Death penalty for man who shot troopers

MILFORD, Pa. — A jury has given the death penalty to a gunman who targeted two Pennsylvania state troopers at their barracks, killing one and leaving a second with devastating injuries.

Eric Frein was sentenced Wednesday, a week after his conviction on charges that include murder of a law-enforcement officer and terrorism.

Prosecutors say Frein was trying to spark a revolution when he killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass in a late-night ambush with a rifle in Pike County, Pennsylvania, which is in the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Frein was captured after a 48-day manhunt in the mountains. The 33-yearold defendant’s lawyers had argued for a sentence of life in prison without parole, saying Frein grew up in a dysfunctional household.