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Ellis
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Ruth Ellis was executed in 1955 for murder but her family say she was a domestic abuse victim.
Ruth Ellis' grandchildren call for posthumous pardon for last woman to be hanged in Britain saying she was physically and emotionally abused by her lover before she shot him dead ⊖
The nightclub hostess, was executed on July 13, 1955, aged 26 after being convicted of murdering her lover, racing driver David Blakely.
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