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.
Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis presided over the new trial and rejected Wilson’s argument that he was unfit for the death penalty due to mental retardation.