Serial killer Chester Turner was formally sentenced to death Tuesday for the murders of 10 women in Los Angeles. John Spano reports for the LA Times. We previously noted the case here at the time of the jury verdict. In this LA Times photo, "cousins James Parham, left, and Thelma Davison celebrate in front of the criminal courts building after Turner's sentencing."

An AP story in The New York Times today reports that Elijah Page’s execution did go through in South Dakota. Page died by lethal injection last night and was pronounced dead at 10:11p.m. CDT. The last inmate to be executed in South Dakota died in the electric chair 60 years ago.

76-year-old widow left to repay inmate? The 1958 murder of 29-year-old Charles Bernoskie, a police officer, got a break in 1999. Robert Zarinksy was implicated for Bernoskie’s murder, but was acquitted of the murder in 2001. In 2003, Elizabeth Bernoskie was awarded $154,000 in a wrongful-death lawsuit against Zarinksy. Last year, the Appellate Court dismissed the 2003 ruling, giving Zarinksy the ability to recover his money in court. Police officers are vowing to help the widow by raising the money if she is ordered by a court to pay it back. As it stands, Zarinksy is serving a life term sentence in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Rosemary Calandriello in 1969. The teenage girl's body has never been found. This article by Home News Tribune reports that no court date has been set for the collection of the money. The Star-Ledger has this story on the case.