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James Earl Ray, the assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was upgraded to fair condition from serious but remained in a hospital Monday, officials said.
Ray, 68, awoke from a coma last week at Columbia Memorial Hospital where he was taken Dec. 21 suffering from liver and kidney failure. “That means he is responding positively to treatment. He’s continuing to stabilize,” the hospital’s chief operating officer Cheryl Goforth said.
Officials said Ray is to be returned to prison when doctors discharge him. He is serving a 99-year term for shooting King in Memphis in 1968.
