Here's the media: New York Magazine in its opening line reports Wilson's death sentence was overturned on "a technicality."

Ronell Wilson's first death sentence for killing two undercover cops in 2003 was overturned on a technicality, but now he's once again the first New Yorker on federal death row since the fifties.

Here's the photo of Wilson they ran beside their article. Here's what Wilson looks like today.

While incarcerated, Wilson impregnated a female guard. The prosecutor, in closing argument this week said Wilson manipulated the guard.

The manipulated a female prison guard, Nancy Gonzalez, into having sex with him and ultimately bearing him a son,

If the guard was a victim, why did they charge her with a crime? Why did she plead guilty? The charge read:

On or about and between March 24, 2012 through August 3, 2012, within the Eastern District of New York, the defendant NANCY GONZALEZ, while employed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, did knowingly and intentionally engage in a sexual act, to wit: sexual intercourse with an inmate, who was at that time in official detention and under her custodial, supervisory and disciplinary authority in a Federal prison, to wit: the Metropolitan Detention Center (the "MDC").

The sole purpose of their tryst, according to court documents, was to impregnate Gonzales.

Court documents say that the relationship started in March of last year and went on through August. Over the course of three weekends, say prosecutors, Wilson and Gonzalez engaged in sexual intercourse with the sole purpose of getting Gonzalez pregnant.

She was recorded saying, "Why not give him a child as far as giving him some kind of hope."

Prosecutors are looking into whether Gonzalez carried on a relationship with another inmate at a different jail after her relationship with Wilson ended. She allegedly told the other prisoner, "I took a chance because I was so vulnerable and wanted to be loved, and now I am carrying his child."

Who manipulated who? Wilson is borderline mentally retarded, a hearing over his mental state this year took weeks. The judge ended up ruling he wasn't "mentally retarded" and could face another death penalty trial.

Gonzales faces up to 15 years when sentenced. Any bets she avoids jail altogether?

No one has been executed in New York City since 1954. The state outlawed the death penalty in 2004.Notwithstanding these numbers, he will be the 60th inmate on death row.

The feds have only executed 3 inmates since 1988 when the death penalty was reinstated. Among them: Timothy McVeigh, Juan Raul Garza and

There were 4/12 hours of closings. The defense argued:

He said Wilson was "born in the heart of trouble" to a drug-addicted mother and was the product of "barely functional" parents in a family that often resorted to crime and violence. His client, he said was "learning-disabled and severely emotionally disturbed" and never taught the difference between right and wrong.

"The answer to pain can't be more pain. ...What will Ronell Wilson's death accomplish? Will it chasten others? What will really happen if you sentence him to death is that more innocent people will suffer," he said, referring to Wilson's family, several of whom sobbed in the audience. "No more living should have to suffer. In the end, you'll find life in prison is enough.

"Let him live. It's up to you to vote for life."

After a month of trial and a 22 page verdict to fill out the jury returned its death sentence in 5 hours. As to how the voted:

The jury rejected arguments posed by the defense — that life in prison was punishment enough and that Mr. Wilson’s rough childhood filled with bad influences should spare him from death. Only one member of the jury found that the federal prison system could restrict Mr. Wilson’s inappropriate behavior.

Only two found that “Ronell Wilson’s life has value.” None felt that his background mitigated against the imposition of the death penalty.