DEATH TO COP KILLER: Brooklyn jury delivers capital sentence
A Brooklyn federal jury has handed down a sentence of death for cop killer Ronell Wilson.
Wilson was convicted in 2006 of murdering two New York City Police Department undercover detectives during a firearms transaction in Staten Island — and more recently accused of getting a prison guard pregnant. He was sentenced to death for the murders, the first time in New York that a federal defendant was sentenced to death since 1954.
The 2007 death sentence, but not the conviction, was thrown out due to prosecutorial error.