Conditional pardon granted for Ruth Ellis, last woman executed in UK
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy told MPs the King had granted the pardon, saying that the death penalty had been replaced with a sentence of life imprisonment.
While the pardon does not claim she was innocent of killing David Blakely, it replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life imprisonment to recognise a profound injustice in this exceptional case.
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon.
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