USA - California. Judge Linda R. Condron sentenced Melvin Earl Forte, 60, black, to death

Judge Linda R. Condron sentenced Melvin Earl Forte, 60, black, to death. A jury convicted Forte last year of the cold-case 1981 rape and killing of German Ines Sailor, and on December 16 (see) sentenced him to death. The 1981 case was solved by DNA evidence decades later. Forte is already serving a life sentence for a 1982 San Francisco carjacking murder in which he shot Dawn O'Malley and her fiance, David Wallace.