Complex sentence: The drug dealer was said to have been beaten over the head with a 2x4 and left to die but he did not die and was in a coma for 8months in 1993 and then was moved to a hospice for 10 years before his eventual death in 2003.
Split into simpler sentences: The drug dealer was said to have been beaten over the head with a 2x4 and left to die but survived and was in a coma for eight months in 1993. He was then moved to a hospice for 10 years before his eventual death in 2003.