James Earl Ray, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1928
Place of Birth: Alton, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 23-Apr-1998
Profession: criminal
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About James Earl Ray
- James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive and felon convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.
- at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
- Ray was convicted on his 41st birthday after entering a guilty plea to forgo a jury trial and subsequently sentenced to 99 years' imprisonment for the murder of King.
- Had he been found guilty by jury trial, he would have been eligible for the death penalty.
- He would have been eligible for parole in 2018, after serving half of his sentence (49 1/2 years), at which point he would have been 90 years old.
- At the time of his death in 1998, he had served 29 years of his sentence.
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