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The Death Penalty Fizzles Again

By Steve Hall

That's the title of a blog post at the Albany Times-Union by David Kaczynski.  LINK  He's the Executive Director of New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.Probably no one outside his family will cry any tears over Ronell Wilson?s fate. After killing two undercover police officers in a robbery that netted $120, Wilson was sentenced to death in a federal trial in 2006. Today, a federal appeals court overturned Wilson?s death sentence and sent the case back to district court. Federal prosecutors may now appeal the decision to a yet higher federal court, or prepare to repeat the sentencing phase of Wilson?s trial at considerable taxpayer expense.The case has been unusual for a couple of reasons. After New York?s death penalty statute was struck down by the Court of Appeals in 2004, Staten Island prosecutors handed the case over to federal prosecutors so that Wilson could still face the death penalty in federal court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).