USA - Judge Nicholas Garaufis formally sentenced Ronell Wilson, 31, Black, to death

Judge Nicholas Garaufis formally sentenced Ronell Wilson, 31, Black, 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 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. "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 today in Brooklyn Federal Court. A jury determined on July 24 (see) 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. A jury convicted Wilson in 2006, then sentenced him to death in early 2007. But the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the sentence due to prosecutorial error requiring a penalty trial before a new jury this year. 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 2 women.