Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 13 (UPI) _ James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, has slipped into a coma at a Nashville hospital. Pam Hobbins with the state Department of Corrections says Ray, who suffers from liver disease, is in critical condition but is ``hanging on.'' Ray has been in and out of the hospital over the past several months, and last year doctors gave him just months to live without a liver transplant. Ray is serving a 99-year sentence for the 1968 assassination of King, but has recanted his confession of killing him. Although prison officials have said they will not allow him to leave Tennessee for a transplant, the 70-year-old Ray has been trying to secure a donor liver, even getting help from King's family. Last spring, Ray met with Dexter King, the civil rights leader's son, and denied killing his father. At the meeting, Dexter King told Ray, ``I want you to know that I believe you and my family believes you and we are going to do everything in our power to try and make sure that justice will prevail.'' -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
