a federal jury sentenced Ronell Wilson...

a federal jury sentenced Ronell Wilson, 24, to death for killing 2 N.Y. undercover police detectives in 2003. It was the 1st successful federal capital punishment prosecution in more than 50 years in New York.
In December, the anonymous jury of 7 men and 5 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 5 counts.
3 men have been executed in federal cases in the United States in recent decades, first among them Timothy McVeigh (see June 11, 2001), 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 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.