Notice of Execution signed for man convicted of ambushing, killing State Police trooper

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Notice of Execution was signed Monday by Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel for Eric Frein, convicted in the 2014 killing of a State Police trooper.

Frein, 33 at the time of his sentencing, was sentenced to death by lethal injection last year. Prosecutors said Frein hoped to start an uprising against the government when he started shooting at the Blooming Grove barracks in the Pocono Mountains in 2014. Frein ultimately killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II in the ambush attack.

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Frein led police on a 48-day manhunt in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania before U.S. marshals caught him near an abandoned airplane hangar.

Frein’s execution is scheduled for June 22.

The Pennsylvania State Troopers Association president David Kennedy today issued a statement in response to the notice being signed by the Department of Corrections:

“Eric Frein ambushed unsuspecting troopers in the dark at their barracks, murdering one and seriously injuring another. His death sentence has been upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. There is no question in anyone’s mind that he committed these horrific crimes. One trooper’s children are growing up without their father, and another is living with serious injuries for the rest of his life. Gov. Tom Wolf should sign this coward’s death warrant and end his life.”

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