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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe talked the other day<\/a> about how Eric Frein’s father tried to excuse his son’s murder of one Pennsylvania State Trooper and the injury of another in a sniper attack almost three years ago. Dear old dad claimed that it was his own stories of stolen valor that drove his Cold War reenactor son to shoot the two officers. I guess the jury didn’t buy it, because they sentenced the murderer to death after five hours of deliberation, according to Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n In closing arguments in the trial’s death penalty phase on Wednesday, Ray Tonkin, the Pike County district attorney, repeatedly referred to Frein as “that murderer over there” and said the defendant methodically planned the ambush.<\/p>\n Tonkin also played a recorded jailhouse telephone conversation in which Frein can be heard telling his mother how he wanted to sell his story to the media. Frein can be heard repeatedly laughing on the recording.<\/p>\n Michael Weinstein, the lead defense lawyer, said Frein was the victim of a dysfunctional family who was influenced by anti-police views held by his father, a retired Army major.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Frein said that he wanted to start a revolution with his attack on police. I think a firing squad would be an appropriate method to complete his sentence.<\/p>\n Thanks to Ex-PH2 for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"