Frein sentenced to death
We talked the other day 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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to Ex-PH2 for the link.
Category: Crime
In PA, the death penalty is a two-word way of saying life in prison. Even California has executed more inmates than PA. Frein’s hot seat ticket number is 187 and nobody is saying “Next.”
We can hope that the fine folks in PA get tired of providing life support to these criminals, and put the death penalty back into practice.
BTW, according to something I read else, back in the 1800s someone did research on the most humane way to execute prisoners, and the firing squad came in first.
Hanging them should still be on the menu, IMHO.
Again I have to bring in my personal favorite for Bowe Bergdahl and Bradley Manning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
There is that – although I suspect even the conservative side of the Supremes would find it “cruel and unusual” for official use.
This guy is a complete scumbag. May he rot wherever he ends up.
How about a nice new rope, and you can reuse it many times?
A POS like him gets an old rope a new one is more humane.
Agreed. A POS like him doesn’t deserve to have a bullet wasted on his ass.
Ass-raped repeatedly, then shanked.
Cocksucker.
Then stuffed into a plain pine box and dropped into a hole in the ground in an obscure corner of the prison grounds with no grave marker.
Completely eradicated and forgotten for eternity.
He will be a hero in prison. He killed a cop and wanted to upset the apple cart. That stuff is gold to career criminals. Of course the guards won’t take too kindly to him.
I am still shaking my head over the “Cold War reenactor” thing. Now, as someone who first joined the military back when the Berlin Wall was a thing, I will admit to being somewhat of a Cold War history buff, and I do enjoy perusing “alternative histories” of what might have happened if the NATO-Warsaw Pact balloon had ever gone up. (I recently re-read Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising” for the first time in probably 30 years, and was surprised at how well it holds up.). But frankly the idea of dressing up like a Soviet soldier circa 1985 and pretending that I’m invading the Fulda Gap never even occurred to me…
Oh, and Frein? That guy can rot in hell.
I get what you’re saying as a cold war airman from the 70’s , I don’t get the reenactor thing either,if he wanted to experience the military why didn’t he enlist ?
I can understand reenacting the Civil War, Revolutionary War and even WW1&2, but the cold war ? which was a heavily armed game of chicken and a staring contest between the Warsaw pact and NATO, I really don’t get that
This! Enlist already! I don’t understand these reenactors as well as the stolen valor thieves, especially the ones who are old enough to enlist and actually earn something. It’s there for the taking! If you want to be a military sniper, then friggin sign up already!
There was a pretty good RTS video game about a Warsaw Pact VA NATO conflict. Can’t remember the name of it. It was not the Red Scare series.
And there are several great turned based games.
As someone who joined at a time when we all were preparing for it I still find those alternate history games cool. I also still find the 11th ACR Black Horse patch cool. And think it is neat they are OPFOR at NTC now.
*Warsaw Pact VS NATO
That was “World In Conflict.” Good game, with the story penned by Larry Bond.
Yeah, that’s it, World in Conflict. Excellent games. Not the most realistic but good balance for the sake of fun.
Not sure how that feedback line ended up in my post. Copy and paste error I guess.
Anyone who has ever read any Larry Bond wonders what Clancy had to do with “Red Storm Rising” other than his popular author’s name. I’ll turn from a Clancy book to read Larry Bond.
An interesting part of the backstory to Clancy’s Hunt for Red October, for those not aware of it, is that it was based on a computer-based naval strategy game called Harpoon. Apparently the game was making the rounds at the Naval War College, and Clancy was introduced to it by some Navy people at a gamer convention.
Clancy created Red October by turning a Harpoon sequence into a narrative. The sequence itself was based on the question: What would happen if a Soviet sub defected?
It turned out that the game was accurate enough in detail to attract the attention of the White House who wondered how Clancy, an insurance agent from Maryland, could be privy to the information.
And Frein needs to be chained at the ankles and dragged behind a T-62.
Reading through Clancy’s stuff, in retrospect he was able to put 2 and 2 together and come up with some interestingly close scenarios that were not public knowledge at the time of writing.
He had some misses, but even those were often close misses.
(I came late to the Clancy party, so I’m still reading some of his stuff for the first time. Right now: Clear and Present Danger.)
Any readers that would like to read a good “what if the cold war turned hot” book should check out Harold Coyle’s “Team Yankee”.
Its about a Combined Arms (AAVS with dismounts and M1 Abrams) Company defending the Fulda Gap.
I still read “Red Storm Rising” every once in a while. I still get a kick out of the downed MiG pilot in his raft pointing his Makarov at the downed FA-18 pilot in his own raft, then changing his mind when he finds out that the American has shark repellant in his pack.
Ship the sonofabitch to Arkansas. We recently put in an express lane for convicted killers who have been gaming the system for over 20 years. Three down, one tonight and three pending; although one may be pardoned. All of the bleeding hearts were doing their best to stop the scheduled executions of murderers and rapists and our gun toting Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and Governor Asa Hutchinson held firm. Proud of both.
Good for Arkansas!
Texas would probably be happy to turn this sh*tbird’s lights out.
Looking at the number of Death Row inmates in PA out of the 172 listed over 90 have been there since before 2000. That’s right well over 1/2 have been living on the taxpayers dime and doing costly appeals for over 17 years.
By contrast Texas has 240 waiting execution with only 62 , roughly 1/4 having been there before 2000.
I’d like to give a fu(k, but he isn’t even worth one of those.
“Behold my field of fucks, it is vast, but it is barren, for I have none to give….”
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
Hey, Mikey Whineystein you stupid ass liar for hire the only victims were the 2 state policeman & their families ambushed by this sic delusional soviet wannabee pickle turd
Twist in Hell, cocksucker.
So this convicted cop killer was also a Cold War Soviet soldier reenactor, eh?
OK, then perhaps the state of Pennsylvania can use this guy to ‘reenact’ a Soviet-era Lubyanka-style execution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Russia
‘[…]
The most common method was to make the convict walk into a dead-end room, and shoot him from behind in the back of the head with a handgun.
[…].’
До свидания!
Maybe. 40 years from now when the appeal system has been exhausted it might happen.
In the meantime, three hots and a cot and all the free medical/dental he can stand.
On the bright side, he’ll also be on the receiving end of a fair amount of non-consensual buttsex.
This turd is a ringer for Timothy McVeigh.
May he continue burning in Hell.
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He deserves the death penalty, and I only wish that he would be hanged at the conclusion of his first and only failed appeal.