USA - Pennsylvania. A jury sentenced Richard Poplawski, 24, white, to death

An Allegheny County jury imposed the death penalty against Richard Poplawski, 24, white. Poplawski was found guilty of  the April 4, 2009, shooting deaths of 3 police officers, Paul Sciullo II, 36, Stephen Mayhle, 29, and Eric Kelly, 41, as they arrived at his home for a simple domestic dispute after Poplawski's mother called the police emergency dispatcher when an argument escalated about his puppies urinating on the floor. Allegheny County Common Please Judge Jeffrey A. Manning formally pronounced the sentence of death.