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King Issues Conditional Pardon to Ruth Ellis, Last Woman Hanged in Britain
The King commuted Ruth Ellis's 1955 death sentence to life imprisonment after a family campaign. Her grandson Stephen Beard described the decision as a removal of a negative mark on family history. A solicitor noted the pardon acknowledged that the punishment did not fit the crim…