Police Officer’s Father says He Wants to Look His Son’s Killer in the Eye Before He is Given Death Penalty

The father of an undercover police officer gunned down in the line of duty says he wishes to look his son’s killer in the eye before he is executed.

Gang member Ronell Wilson executed Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin – both fathers – in Staten Island in 2003.

Now Andrews’ 73 year old father, Rodney Andrews Sr, has spoken of his desire to witness the execution of the man who took his son away from him, despite the years of appeals that will now follow.

He said; ‘Ronell might outlive me.

‘I hope I’m here till I’m a hundred. I’d like to be there and get eye contact with him [Wilson] before they put him to sleep.

‘I want him to see that I’m glad he’s gone. He took two people’s lives and doesn’t deserve to be here,’ he told the New York Daily News.

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