The death sentence of a man who killed two undercover police officers posing as gun buyers in a 2003 Staten Island sting operation has been overturned by a federal appeals court.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said yesterday that a prosecutor’s statements to the jury and a judge’s refusal to give the jury a limiting charge undermined the death sentence given Ronell Wilson for the murder of Detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews on March 10, 2003.