Pennsylvania v. Poplawski (majority)
Annotate this CaseThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence for Richard Poplawski, convicted in 2011 of killing three Pittsburgh police officers. The officers were killed on April 4, 2009, when they responded to Poplawski's home for a domestic dispute with his mother. Poplawski, armed with multiple weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition and body armor launched a gunfight with the city that lasted for hours. "The record shows that the jury balanced three aggravating circumstances against two statutory mitigating circumstances and determined that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances. Therefore, there exists no ground to vacate the sentence."
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