Jun 4, 2019 · Dontae Callen was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2013 (ADOC). The nation’s highest court won’t review the case of a man currently awaiting execution on...

Apr 16, 2021 · Dontae Callen was sentenced to death and remains on Alabama Death Row for a triple murder. According to court documents Dontae Callen would murder Bernice Kelly, 59, and his cousins Quortes Kelly, 33, and Aaliyah Budgess, 12 and then would set the residence on fire.

May 9, 2023 · The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Friday on a challenge filed by 24-year-old Dontae Callen. Callen was convicted of killing his 59-year-old aunt, Bernice Kelly, and two cousins, 33-year-old Quortes Kelly and 12-year-old Aaliyah Budgess.

Apr 28, 2017 · The appellant, Dontae Callen, 1 was convicted of murdering Bernice Kelly, Quortes Kelly, and 12-year-old Aaliyah Budgess during the course of an arson; of committing the murders by one act or pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct; and of murdering a child under the age of 14; all offenses defined as capital by §§ 13A-5-40(a)(9), (a)(10 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A Birmingham man was sentenced to death this afternoon for his. including his 12-year-old cousin. Dontae Callen, 20, was sentenced by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge...

Jul 12, 2013 · The jury announced Thursday afternoon that they had found Dontae Callen guilty of three counts of capital murder: death of two or more people; death of a person under the age of 14;...

Aug 11, 2017 · The court turned down the appeal of 24-year-old Dontae Callen in a decision Friday. Callen was convicted of killing an aunt and two cousins in Jefferson County in 2010. One of Callen’s victims was 12.

Aug 11, 2017 · The court turned down the appeal of Dontae Callen, 24, in a decision Friday. Callen was convicted of killing an aunt and two cousins in Jefferson County in 2010. One of Callen’s victims was 12.

The circuit circumstances: court found as statutory mitigating (1) that Callen did not have a history of prior criminal activity, § 13A-5-51(1), Ala. Code 1975 and (2) that Callen was 18 years of age at the time of the murders, § 13A-5-51(7), Ala. Code 1975.

Dontae Callen brutally murdered three members of his family—his grandaunt, her adult son, and his twelve-year-old cousin—by stabbing them dozens of times and setting their apartment on fire.