MILFORD -- The Pike County District Attorney's office officially filed the paperwork to seek the death penalty against Eric Frein on Tuesday.
Frein is accused of ambushing two Pennsylvania state troopers outside the Blooming Grove barracks on September 12, 2014.
Corporal Bryon Dickson died and Trooper Alex Douglass was badly wounded.
Frein was on the run for weeks until he was captured in October.
A formal arraignment on the request is scheduled for Thursday at 1 p.m. in Pike County.