input: 
  import json
  
  def parse_json_to_dict(json_string: str) -> dict:
      """ Parse a given json-formatted string into a Python dictionary.
      >>> parse_json_to_dict('{"name": "John", "age": 30, "address": {"city": "New York", "state": "NY"}}')
      {'name': 'John', 'age': 30, 'address': {'city': 'New York', 'state': 'NY'}}
      """
      return json.loads(json_string)
  
output:     return json.loads(json_string)