James Earl Ray

It is not for us to determine who goes to hell or heaven as that is believed to be within the realm of divine judgment. Each individual's fate after death is influenced by their beliefs, actions, and intentions during their life.

Cancer did not kill James Earl Ray. Ray died of complications relating to kidney disease and liver failure caused by hepatitis C.

James Earl Ray was reported to be 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters) tall.

James Earl Ray was a white male with a slender build and brown hair. He is most commonly pictured wearing a suit or prison uniform.

James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. from a bathroom window at a rooming house across from the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

James Earl Ray was a white male with short brown hair and blue eyes. He had a slim build and was of average height.

James Earl Ray was a white man with a slender build and brown hair. He had a receding hairline and was described as being around 5 feet 10 inches tall.

No, James Earl Ray is not alive. He died on April 23, 1998 in Nashville, Tennessee from kidney disease and liver failure.

James Earl Ray was captured in London after a two-month international manhunt following his assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. A manhunt ensued, and he was finally apprehended at Heathrow Airport while attempting to leave the UK using a false passport.

James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. from a nearby bathroom window at a distance of about 205 feet.

D Ray White, a black owner of a cafe in West Virginia, was fatally shot by a former coal company executive who was unhappy with White's campaign to integrate the local coal industry. White's murder remains unsolved, and the case has been widely speculated to involve racial motives.

James Earl Ray was white.

James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., did not have a diagnosed mental illness, but he was described as a career criminal and held racist beliefs. Some have suggested that his actions were motivated by a combination of racism, desire for notoriety, and a sense of grievance.

Yes, James Earl Ray did time in jail after he killed Martin Luther King, Jr. He was sentenced to 99 years for the murder.

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.

well he was 70 when he died and he was in prison for 30 years so that makes it 40 years.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was 39 years old when he was shot and killed by James Earl Ray.

Ray fled north to Toronto, Ontario, where he hid out for a month and acquired a Canadian passport under the false name of Ramon George Sneyd. On June 8, 1968, a little more than two months after King's death, Ray was captured at London's Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United Kingdom on the false Canadian passport.

At check-in the ticket agent noticed the name on his passport -- Sneyd -- was on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police watchlist. At the airport, officials noticed that Ray carried another passport under a second name. The UK quickly extradited Ray to Tennessee, where he was charged with King's murder.

He confessed to the crime on March 10, 1969, and after pleading guilty was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

Three days later, he recanted his confession. Ray had entered a guilty plea on the advice of his attorney, Percy Foreman, in order to avoid a potential trial conviction, which could have led to a sentence of death. The method of execution in Tennessee at the time would have been electrocution.

Ray fired Foreman as his attorney and derisively called him "Percy Fourflusher," thereafter. Ray began claiming that a man he had met in Montreal, who used the alias "Raul", had been deeply involved. Instead he asserted that he did not "personally shoot Dr. King," but may have been, "partially responsible without knowing it," hinting at a conspiracy. Ray sold this version of King's assassination and his own flight to William Bradford Huie.

Huie investigated this story and discovered Ray sometimes lied. Ray told Huie he purposely left the rifle with his fingerprints on it in plain sight because he wanted to become a famous criminal. Ray was convinced he was so smart that he would not be caught. He believed Governor of Alabama George Wallace would soon be elected President, and Ray would only be confined for a short time. He spent the remainder of his life unsuccessfully attempting to withdraw his guilty plea and secure a trial.

On June 11, 1977, Ray made his second appearance on the FBI Most Wanted Fugitives list, this time as the 351st entry. He and six other convicts had escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, on June 10, 1977. They were recaptured on June 13, three days later, and returned to prison. A year was added to Ray's previous sentence, to total 100 years.

In 1997, King's son Dexter met with Ray, and publicly supported his efforts to obtain a retrial. Loyd Jowers, a restaurant owner in Memphis, was brought to civil court and sued as being part of a conspiracy to murder Martin Luther King. Jowers was found legally liable, and the King family accepted $100 in restitution, an amount chosen to show that they were not pursuing the case for financial gain.

Dr. William Pepper, a friend of King in the last year of his life, represented Ray in a televised mock trial in an attempt to get him the trial he never had. Pepper later represented the King family in a wrongful death civil trial against Loyd Jowers. The King family has since concluded that Ray did not have anything to do with the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ray died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70, from complications related to kidney disease and liver failure caused by hepatitis C. He probably contracted the disease through a blood transfusion given after he sustained a stabbing while at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. Ray was survived by seven siblings. His brother Jerry Ray told CNN that his brother did not want to be buried or have his final resting place in the United States because of "the way the government has treated him." Ray was cremated and his ashes were flown to Ireland, the home of his family's ancestors.

James Earl Ray was 40 years old when he assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray was born on March 10, 1928 and assassinated King on April 4, 1968.

James Earl Ray disagreed with what Martin was trying to do. James E. Ray was a racist, he hated black people, and he thought he could get paid a lot of money from white extremists for killing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He also thought he would be seen as a hero because he shot "The" one who was making all the trouble about Civil Rights. He expected the Klan to see him a hero, thus the reason for his quick confession. He received no money, he only got life imprisonment without parole and died in jail from natural causes. He died at Brushy MTN State Prison in Upper-East Tennessee.

Yes, James Earl Ray went to jail for shooting and killing Martin Luther King, Jr. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

James Earl Ray was convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent African American civil rights leader. His actions suggest he did not have a positive attitude towards African Americans.

Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray were all individuals who were convicted of assassinating prominent political figures in the United States: President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., respectively. Their actions had significant impacts on American history and society.

James Earl Ray was arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. on June 10, 1968, nearly two months after King's murder.

There is no definitive evidence that James Earl Ray was paid to kill Martin Luther King Jr. Ray claimed he was manipulated into the assassination plot but there is no concrete proof of financial compensation.