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Gregory Rouster, originally sentenced to death for...

Gregory Rouster, originally sentenced to death for the slayings of his foster parents has been resentenced to 60 years in prison.

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Gregory Rouster, originally sentenced to death for the slayings of his foster parents has been resentenced to 60 years in prison. 
Rouster, 37, now known as Gamba Rastafari, was sentenced by a Lake County judge in the Aug. 12, 1986, shooting deaths of John Rease, 74, and Henrietta Rease, 59.
In 2003, a Lake County judge ruled that Rouster was retarded and therefore ineligible for the death penalty under the high court's ruling the year before.
Rouster and his co-defendant, Darnell Williams, were convicted in 1987 of the Reases' slayings.
Last July, then-Gov. Joe Kernan commuted Williams' death sentence to life in prison without parole one week before his scheduled execution for the double slaying.
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  • (Sources: Indianapolis Star, 11/03/2005)