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1928 – 1998James Earl Ray (1928-1998)Died 23 April 1998, aged 70James Earl Ray, convicted of assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, died in prison on 23 April 1998 while serving a 99-year sentence. He had spent decades unsuccessfully seeking a retrial, claiming he had been framed.