Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in UK, gets conditional posthumous pardon ⊖
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David Blakely
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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 is posthumously pardoned by the King more than 70 years after becoming the last woman to be executed in Britain ⊖
Ellis, a nightclub hostess, was executed in 1955 for murdering her lover, David Blakely. Her grandchildren campaigned for a pardon on the basis that she was the victim of abuse.
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