James Earl Ray in a coma

Nashville - James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, was in a coma yesterday and in a critical condition …

Nashville - James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, was in a coma yesterday and in a critical condition suffering from liver disease.

Ray (70), who is serving a 99year sentence for shooting King in Memphis in 1968, has been in and out of Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital over the past two years whenever his liver problem has flared up.

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