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Ronell Wilson is sentenced to death for his second time Tuesday.
A FURIOUS federal judge sentenced Ronell Wilson to death by lethal injection and called on the U.S Justice Department to investigate how the remorseless cop killer turned a Brooklyn jail into his “personal fiefdom.”
Judge Nicholas Garaufis said it was “shocking” that Wilson was able to carry on a sexual affair for months with a female guard, climaxing with her bearing him a son, and manipulate other inmates and staff members for favors, while he awaited resentencing for brutally murdering two NYPD detectives in cold blood.
“Not only did Mr. Wilson’s behavior in prison illuminate his continuing lack of remorse and disregard for authority, but also it shed light on the apparent ineptitude of the Bureau of Prisons,” Garaufis said Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
A jury determined in July that Wilson should receive the death penalty, not life in prison, for the 2003 execution-style murders of undercover Detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin during a gun buy-and-bust.
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Given his last opportunity to speak in public, Wilson criticized his lawyers for putting on a poor defense and then offered a lame apology.
“I said on a previous allocution how deeply sorry I am for the pain I caused upon your family,” Wilson, 31, said, looking in the direction of widow Maryann Andrews and Rodney Andrews, Sr.
“I would like to leave on this note: To error is human, but to forgive is divine. May God bless you and your family.”
The sentencing was a formality before the condemned prisoner is sent to federal Death Row in Terre Haute, Ind., to await his execution.
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About 50 plainclothes cops attending the proceeding – far less than Wilson’s prior sentencing in 2007. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the sentence due to prosecutorial error requiring a penalty trial before a new jury this year.
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Nancy Gonzalez pleaded guilty to having sex with cop killer Ronell Wilson while she was a guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
“Are you ready to be sentenced?” Garaufis said.
Wilson nodded his head.
“Will the defendant please rise,” the judge said. “It is the judgment of the court that the defendant, Ronell Wilson, is sentenced to death.”
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Cheryl Wilson, the defendant’s mother, and his two sisters professed their love for him as he was led out of the ceremonial courtroom by U.S. Marshals.
“Your baby will be OK,” Cheryl Wilson told him.
Wilson’s baby mama pleaded guilty to having sex with an inmate and is awaiting sentencing.
Outside court, Rodney Andrews, Sr., said Wilson’s apology was hollow. “He hadn’t said anything all these years, now it’s doomsday, and he wants to talk,” Andrews said. “It doesn’t mean anything.”
Detectives Endowment Association president Michael Palladino said he would be willing “to pull the switch” to carry out Wilson’s execution.
Defense lawyer David Stern vowed to appeal the death sentence to a higher court. “This is a really said day for me because of my failure to explain to this jury the futility of this sentence,” Stern said. “It demonstrates how little we’ve evolved since Biblical times. This is all pointless.”
The feds have not carried out an execution since 2003 due to pending legal challenges. There are currently 59 condemned prisoners in the federal penal system, including two women.
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