James Earl Ray was in prison for 29 years for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He passed away in 1998 while still serving his sentence.
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He died in prison in 1998 after serving 29 years of his sentence.
he was sentence to 99 years in jail he died when he was 70 years old .
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., but Ray only served about 30 of the 99 years because he died in 1998 at the age of 70.
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He died in prison in 1998 after serving 29 years of his sentence.
Well, he was caught June 8, 1968, and died in prison on April 23, 1998. That would make it 30 years in prison.
he was sentence to 99 years in jail he died when he was 70 years old .
James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., but Ray only served about 30 of the 99 years because he died in 1998 at the age of 70.
He In jail for about 10 to 20 years
James Earl Ray committed a good many of crimes. His was convicted of his first crime, a burglary in California, in 1949. In 1952, he served two years in prison for the armed robbery of a taxi driver in Illinois. In 1955, Ray was convicted of mail fraud and served three years in prison because he stole money orders in Hannibal, Missouri and used the money to travel to Florida. In 1959, Ray committed armed robbery after he stole $120 from a Kroger in St. Louis. In 1969, he was charged with the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and sentenced to 99 years in prison. In 1977, while serving his murder charge, Ray escaped from prison and, when caught again, a year was added to his 99 year sentence, making it a total of 100 years. So, to put it shortly, James Earl Ray committed around seven crimes.
He has one son, Flynn Earl Jones.
On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead by an assassin. His death sparked off riots in many cities and 46 people were killed during these. In March 1969, James Earl Ray was found guilty of King's murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison. Many years after starting his sentence, Ray claimed that he was innocent and that he could not have killed King.
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James Earl Ray had nine siblings, including six brothers and three sisters.