UK finally pardons Ruth Ellis, 70 years after execution

She was the last woman hanged in Britain but should Ruth Ellis REALLY have been pardoned for her crime of passion? Read her compelling life story and decide for yourself

She was the last woman hanged in Britain but should Ruth Ellis REALLY have been pardoned for her crime of passion? Read her compelling life story and decide for yourself

‘Ruth Ellis was a murderer, but her pardon means now she is just my grandmother’  

Exclusive: Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain to be hanged in July 1955, after shooting dead her lover David Blakely, has been posthumously pardoned - finally meaning she is just Stephen Beard's grandmother and not a cold blooded killer.

Last woman executed in Britain for killing abusive lover gets a conditional pardon

Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Britain, will be conditionally pardoned, according to Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy

Ruth Ellis receives historic pardon 70 years after execution as evidence of domestic abuse emerges

The UK Parliament finally granted a conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman to receive capital punishment in the country back in 1955. The then-28-year-old accused was charged with the murder of her partner of two years, David Blakely. The pardon application was put in the court by Ellis’ four grandchildren, who claimed that...

Convicted murderess granted conditional pardon from her death sentence, 71 years after she was hanged. Missed it by that much [Interesting]

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