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Court won't hear cyanide case appeal

PITTSBURGH — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a former University of Pittsburgh medical researcher in the poisoning death of his wife.

Robert Ferrante, 69, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole in the April 2013 death of 41-year-old Autumn Klein. Allegheny County prosecutors said he put cyanide in her energy drink.

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