India, Oct. 15 -- F ormer Los Angeles gang leader Duane Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison by a Las Vegas court on Tuesday for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur. Davis, 63, was convicted of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon in August. "You don't get to take a man from his family. You don't get to take his very life, his whole future from him, and just walk away from it. Especially when that man is Tupac Shakur," Judge Carli Kierny said while handing down the sentence. Shakur was a central figure in the hip-hop rivalry between the US East Coast and West Coast. He was shot in a drive-by attack on September 7, 1996, and died in hospital six days later, aged 25. During the trial, the prosecution had argued that Davis had ordered the killing after his nephew was beaten by members of Shakur's entourage at a Las Vegas casino. HTC...