Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in UK, gets conditional posthumous pardon
Ruth Ellis was hanged at London's Holloway Prison in 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover David Blakely.
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Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the UK, has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon for the 1955 murder of her lover David Blakely. Her family campaigned for the pardon, arguing she was a victim of domestic abuse, and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy announced the King had granted it. Ellis' granddaughter welcomed the news, saying the family had carried undeserved shame.