cheka.
16th March 2016, 06:42 PM
disgusting ruling by US jew/catholic court
and when did 33 years old qualify as YOUNG gang member??
http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/us/judge-man-on-death-row-for-killing-2-cops-cant-be-/nqk5J/
NEW YORK — A man on death row for killing two undercover New York City police officers cannot be executed because he meets the legal standard to be considered intellectually disabled, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
In his 76-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis vacated Ronell Wilson's death sentence and imposed a new punishment of life in prison.
But the judge said Wilson, who had a history of severe behavioral problems dating back to childhood, had "significant deficits in adaptive functioning" that made him ineligible for the death penalty under new standards established by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"To be candid, the court harbors doubts as to whether Wilson would be considered intellectually disabled by most clinicians," the judge wrote. But, he said, the Supreme Court's decision "strongly suggests" the legal standard is more protective than the clinical standard.
Wilson, 33, was a young gang member on Staten Island in 2003 when he murdered undercover detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews in an illegal gun sting gone awry. The officers were shot point-blank in the backs of their heads.
A jury sentenced Wilson to die by lethal injection, making him the first federal defendant to receive a death sentence in New York City since the 1950s. An appeals court threw out the sentence in 2010 because of an error in jury instructions, but a second jury re-sentenced him to death in 2013. Wilson has been on death row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
At one point, Garaufis had ruled that Wilson's IQ scores seemed to show he had sufficient intellectual functioning. But in 2014 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a judge could not rely solely on a person's IQ to determine intellectual disability. An appeals court ordered Garaufis to take another look at Wilson's case.
and when did 33 years old qualify as YOUNG gang member??
http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/us/judge-man-on-death-row-for-killing-2-cops-cant-be-/nqk5J/
NEW YORK — A man on death row for killing two undercover New York City police officers cannot be executed because he meets the legal standard to be considered intellectually disabled, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
In his 76-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis vacated Ronell Wilson's death sentence and imposed a new punishment of life in prison.
But the judge said Wilson, who had a history of severe behavioral problems dating back to childhood, had "significant deficits in adaptive functioning" that made him ineligible for the death penalty under new standards established by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"To be candid, the court harbors doubts as to whether Wilson would be considered intellectually disabled by most clinicians," the judge wrote. But, he said, the Supreme Court's decision "strongly suggests" the legal standard is more protective than the clinical standard.
Wilson, 33, was a young gang member on Staten Island in 2003 when he murdered undercover detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews in an illegal gun sting gone awry. The officers were shot point-blank in the backs of their heads.
A jury sentenced Wilson to die by lethal injection, making him the first federal defendant to receive a death sentence in New York City since the 1950s. An appeals court threw out the sentence in 2010 because of an error in jury instructions, but a second jury re-sentenced him to death in 2013. Wilson has been on death row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
At one point, Garaufis had ruled that Wilson's IQ scores seemed to show he had sufficient intellectual functioning. But in 2014 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a judge could not rely solely on a person's IQ to determine intellectual disability. An appeals court ordered Garaufis to take another look at Wilson's case.