More than three decades ago, four Baton Rouge teenagers carjacked, kidnapped, terrorized and pistol-whipped an LSU freshman before Dale Dwayne Craig killed the student execution style .

Craig was a week shy of his 18th birthday in September 1992, when he shot and killed Kipp Earl Gullet at a secluded South Baton Rouge construction site. He was initially condemned to be put to death for the killing after a jury convicted him of capital murder two years later.

But the U.S. Supreme Court commuted his death sentence to life behind bars in 2005, when the High Court outlawed executions of defendants who are younger than 18 when they commit capital crimes.

Craig had spent 28 years behind bars by the time District Judge Eboni Johnson Rose vacated his life without the possibility of parole se

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