02 September 2013 :

Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Laura Petro formally sentenced Dontae Callen, 20, Black, to death. Callen was convicted of capital murder charges by a jury in July in the Oct. 29, 2010 stabbing deaths of his aunt, Bernice Kelly, 59; and his cousins Quortes Kelly, 33; and Aaliyah Budgess, 12, and setting fires in the apartment after the slayings. Callen had confessed to police. The jury had recommended that the judge sentence Callen to death on July 12 (see).