While it may be considered two wrongs don't make a right..this needs to be done...fuck his lawyer saying that he didn't know that they were cops...they were two human beings killed execution style, shot in the back of their heads.....too many young bucks with the thug/gangster mentality runnin amok.....Give me the needle..Like Robin Harris said: "Gotta go...GOTTA GO"...fuck gimme a porcupine so that I can dip it in cynaide and just line the fucks up for me...
Killer of 2 N.Y. Detectives Is Sentenced to Death
By MICHAEL BRICK
Published: January 30, 2007
A federal jury sentenced a 24-year-old Staten Island man to death yesterday for killing two undercover police detectives in 2003. It was the first successful federal capital punishment prosecution in more than 50 years in New York.
After the verdict was read, the defendant, Ronell Wilson, 24, rubbed his palms, looked at his mother and then stuck his tongue out at the families of his victims. His younger brother loudly cursed the jurors, while their mother declared them “the murderers now.”
The widows and other relatives of the slain detectives applauded briefly from the gallery, crying, "And the Lord rejoices."
In December, the anonymous jury of seven men and five women convicted Mr. Wilson of shooting the two detectives, James V. Nemorin and Rodney J. Andrews, in the back of the head in a car during a weapons sting on March 10, 2003.
They reached their verdict yesterday after deliberations that started Monday afternoon. They found Mr. Wilson devoid of remorse and directed Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis to impose death sentences on five counts.
Three men have been executed in federal cases in the United States in recent decades, first among them Timothy McVeigh, for the bombing of the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. There are 46 defendants on the federal death row, not including Mr. Wilson.
But prosecutors in New York have failed to win death sentences even in prominent terrorism trials, including those involving the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa and f Zacarias Moussaoui, who was tried in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
Since a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in 1988, federal prosecutors in New York have brought death penalty charges against 40 defendants, according to Kevin McNally, the director of the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which coordinates the defense of federal death penalty cases nationwide.
Of those, juries have rejected the death penalty in at least 13 of the cases that have gone to trial, , resulting in sentences of life without parole. One a week and a half ago, was in the same court. Nine other cases are pending, including eight in Brooklyn.
But the murder of two undercover detectives, found bleeding on the streets of Staten Island in the aftermath of a miscarried gun transaction, resounded in a city still shaken by the terror attacks. Past twilight on March 10, 2003, the victims became the first two officers killed by gunfire in a single day since 1988.
The murders proved a defining passage for the city, bridging a period of great sentiment for the police that began to erode when officers killed an unarmed teenager, Timothy Stansbury. By a quirk of fate, the trial of Mr. Wilson began two days after an undercover police team in Queens fired 50 bullets and killed an unarmed man, drawing more scrutiny to undercover police operations.
Federal prosecutors vigorously sought the death penalty against Mr. Wilson, taking the case from state prosecutors in Staten Island after New York’s death penalty was largely invalidated in 2004. They endorsed plea bargains with seven defendants, young men based around the Stapleton Houses project in northeastern Staten Island.
The group members had forged their camaraderie on admiration for a slightly older man, nicknamed Keyo, who had been killed under circumstances that are unclear.
Bearing Keyo tattoos and T-shirts, the men gave themselves nicknames like O and Mal-G, evidence and testimony showed. Between the humdrum stuff of growing up, community college courses, talent shows and trips to an amusement park, they mastered gang signs, sold crack cocaine and beat and robbed their rivals.
On March 3, 2003, the men sold a handgun to Detective Nemorin, 36, a Haitian immigrant and father of three who was admired by other officers for his ability to convincingly shed dapper silk scarves for the trappings of a street tough.
As his supervisor would later testify, Detective Nemorin arranged to buy a second gun, a Tec-9 assault pistol of the sort favored by drug runners, at a rendezvous by the Stapleton Houses a week later. For backup, he brought Detective Andrews, 34, a divorced Navy veteran and father of two with a reputation for making tough arrests.
In a police-issued Nissan Maxima, the detectives approached the towering Stapleton Houses with a handgun for protection and a surveillance transmitter.
On the other side of the telephone line, plans for the transaction were shifting from sale to robbery, members of the group later testified. Outside the housing project, Mr. Wilson climbed into the back seat with Jessie Jacobus, at 16 a 6-foot-3, 240-pound enforcer for the group.
As they circled the streets, Mr. Wilson voiced suspicions of a police presence in the neighborhood.
He also questioned the presence of Detective Andrews, who Detective Nemorin said was his brother-in-law. The detectives sought to reassure him with canny street talk and evasive driving, to little discernable effect.
On a darkened dead-end street, with no apparent warning, Mr. Wilson propelled a single 44-caliber bullet into the skull of each man, starting with Detectives Andrews. It was never proven whether Mr. Wilson knew his victims were police officers. But Mr. Jacobus testified that Mr. Wilson gave a reason for the shootings in the minutes after he pulled the trigger.
“Because I don’t give... .” he quoted Mr. Wilson as saying, using a vulgarism to describe just what he did not give, “about anybody.”
Mr. Wilson’s lawyers, Ephraim Savitt, Mitchell Dinnerstein and Kelley J. Sharkey, sought to save Mr. Wilson’s life by recounting the circumstances of his childhood. Before the jury retired, Mr. Wilson read a brief, heavily edited statement of remorse.
Working from 29 pages of questions, the jurors dissected a series of factors weighing for and against the death penalty. Affirming elements of their conviction, they found that Mr. Wilson had acted with the intent to kill. They endorsed all of the prosecution’s assertions, including one that Mr. Wilson would remain a danger in prison.
The jurors, who declined interview requests conveyed by the judge, unanimously endorsed nearly all of the defense team’s mitigating factors, finding that Mr. Wilson had grown up depressed, sick and trapped in a realm of poverty, deprivation, drug abuse and violence. They wrote in another factor weighing against the death penalty: "Ronell Wilson was possibly subject to peer pressure.
But they unanimously rejected the notions that he has adjusted well to federal prison, taken responsibility for his actions or "has remorse for the murder of Detectives Andrews and Nemorin."
The jury foreman, dressed in a suit and tie, gave the panel’s answers in a loud crisp voice, glancing now and again at Mr. Wilson.
link:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/n...em&ex=1170306000&en=a28ffbc76dc268d3&ei=5087
killers family said:His younger brother loudly cursed the jurors, while their mother declared them “the murderers now
Killer of 2 N.Y. Detectives Is Sentenced to Death
By MICHAEL BRICK
Published: January 30, 2007
A federal jury sentenced a 24-year-old Staten Island man to death yesterday for killing two undercover police detectives in 2003. It was the first successful federal capital punishment prosecution in more than 50 years in New York.
After the verdict was read, the defendant, Ronell Wilson, 24, rubbed his palms, looked at his mother and then stuck his tongue out at the families of his victims. His younger brother loudly cursed the jurors, while their mother declared them “the murderers now.”
In December, the anonymous jury of seven men and five women convicted Mr. Wilson of shooting the two detectives, James V. Nemorin and Rodney J. Andrews, in the back of the head in a car during a weapons sting on March 10, 2003.
They reached their verdict yesterday after deliberations that started Monday afternoon. They found Mr. Wilson devoid of remorse and directed Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis to impose death sentences on five counts.
Three men have been executed in federal cases in the United States in recent decades, first among them Timothy McVeigh, for the bombing of the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. There are 46 defendants on the federal death row, not including Mr. Wilson.
But prosecutors in New York have failed to win death sentences even in prominent terrorism trials, including those involving the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa and f Zacarias Moussaoui, who was tried in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
Since a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in 1988, federal prosecutors in New York have brought death penalty charges against 40 defendants, according to Kevin McNally, the director of the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which coordinates the defense of federal death penalty cases nationwide.
Of those, juries have rejected the death penalty in at least 13 of the cases that have gone to trial, , resulting in sentences of life without parole. One a week and a half ago, was in the same court. Nine other cases are pending, including eight in Brooklyn.
But the murder of two undercover detectives, found bleeding on the streets of Staten Island in the aftermath of a miscarried gun transaction, resounded in a city still shaken by the terror attacks. Past twilight on March 10, 2003, the victims became the first two officers killed by gunfire in a single day since 1988.
The murders proved a defining passage for the city, bridging a period of great sentiment for the police that began to erode when officers killed an unarmed teenager, Timothy Stansbury. By a quirk of fate, the trial of Mr. Wilson began two days after an undercover police team in Queens fired 50 bullets and killed an unarmed man, drawing more scrutiny to undercover police operations.
Federal prosecutors vigorously sought the death penalty against Mr. Wilson, taking the case from state prosecutors in Staten Island after New York’s death penalty was largely invalidated in 2004. They endorsed plea bargains with seven defendants, young men based around the Stapleton Houses project in northeastern Staten Island.
The group members had forged their camaraderie on admiration for a slightly older man, nicknamed Keyo, who had been killed under circumstances that are unclear.
Bearing Keyo tattoos and T-shirts, the men gave themselves nicknames like O and Mal-G, evidence and testimony showed. Between the humdrum stuff of growing up, community college courses, talent shows and trips to an amusement park, they mastered gang signs, sold crack cocaine and beat and robbed their rivals.
On March 3, 2003, the men sold a handgun to Detective Nemorin, 36, a Haitian immigrant and father of three who was admired by other officers for his ability to convincingly shed dapper silk scarves for the trappings of a street tough.
As his supervisor would later testify, Detective Nemorin arranged to buy a second gun, a Tec-9 assault pistol of the sort favored by drug runners, at a rendezvous by the Stapleton Houses a week later. For backup, he brought Detective Andrews, 34, a divorced Navy veteran and father of two with a reputation for making tough arrests.
In a police-issued Nissan Maxima, the detectives approached the towering Stapleton Houses with a handgun for protection and a surveillance transmitter.
On the other side of the telephone line, plans for the transaction were shifting from sale to robbery, members of the group later testified. Outside the housing project, Mr. Wilson climbed into the back seat with Jessie Jacobus, at 16 a 6-foot-3, 240-pound enforcer for the group.
As they circled the streets, Mr. Wilson voiced suspicions of a police presence in the neighborhood.
He also questioned the presence of Detective Andrews, who Detective Nemorin said was his brother-in-law. The detectives sought to reassure him with canny street talk and evasive driving, to little discernable effect.
On a darkened dead-end street, with no apparent warning, Mr. Wilson propelled a single 44-caliber bullet into the skull of each man, starting with Detectives Andrews. It was never proven whether Mr. Wilson knew his victims were police officers. But Mr. Jacobus testified that Mr. Wilson gave a reason for the shootings in the minutes after he pulled the trigger.
“Because I don’t give... .” he quoted Mr. Wilson as saying, using a vulgarism to describe just what he did not give, “about anybody.”
Mr. Wilson’s lawyers, Ephraim Savitt, Mitchell Dinnerstein and Kelley J. Sharkey, sought to save Mr. Wilson’s life by recounting the circumstances of his childhood. Before the jury retired, Mr. Wilson read a brief, heavily edited statement of remorse.
Working from 29 pages of questions, the jurors dissected a series of factors weighing for and against the death penalty. Affirming elements of their conviction, they found that Mr. Wilson had acted with the intent to kill. They endorsed all of the prosecution’s assertions, including one that Mr. Wilson would remain a danger in prison.
The jurors, who declined interview requests conveyed by the judge, unanimously endorsed nearly all of the defense team’s mitigating factors, finding that Mr. Wilson had grown up depressed, sick and trapped in a realm of poverty, deprivation, drug abuse and violence. They wrote in another factor weighing against the death penalty: "Ronell Wilson was possibly subject to peer pressure.
But they unanimously rejected the notions that he has adjusted well to federal prison, taken responsibility for his actions or "has remorse for the murder of Detectives Andrews and Nemorin."
The jury foreman, dressed in a suit and tie, gave the panel’s answers in a loud crisp voice, glancing now and again at Mr. Wilson.
link:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/n...em&ex=1170306000&en=a28ffbc76dc268d3&ei=5087
..yeah...they're probablly already wasted in ways too numerous to list...but at least it won't be providing three hots and a cot for this savage...