Ray was known to have a fanatical hatred of black people. Even while serving his sentence in Missouri, he rejected a move to an open farm prison where conditions were better on the grounds he could not live with black inmates. Three days after his jailing, Ray recanted his guilty plea. He claimed he had been set up by a gun dealer in Montreal known only as Raoul.
He spent the next 29 years fighting for the trial his guilty plea had forestalled - and won the support of the King family. New forensic tests in on the gun said to have been used in the assassination proved inconclusive.
Ray died on 23 April Explore the BBC. Front Page Years Themes Witness. About This Site Text Only. His guilty plea was made on the understanding he was spared the electric chair. It also brought a swift end to the trial, which otherwise might have lasted weeks. IMB Watch. Prisons: The good, the bad and the ugly. World Prison News. Stealing our pensions. Keep us informed. Silver linings. By bread alone. L Howden - prison supplied 31st October Smoking future — Star Letter of the Month.
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Justice Department. The House committee acknowledged that a low-level conspiracy might have existed, involving one or more accomplices to Ray, but uncovered no evidence to definitively prove this theory. In addition to the mountain of evidence against him, such as his fingerprints on the murder weapon and admitted presence at the rooming house on April 4, Ray had a definite motive in assassinating King: hatred.
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