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Jul 14, 2026

Nearly 71 Years After Her Execution, Ruth Ellis, the Last Woman Executed in the UK, Receives Conditional Pardon from King Charles

On July 8, 2026, King Charles, fol­low­ing the advice of Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, grant­ed a posthu­mous con­di­tion­al par­don to Ruth Ellis, con­vert­ing her death sen­tence to a term of life impris­on­ment. Ms. Ellis was orig­i­nal­ly sen­tenced to death for the April 10, 1955 mur­der of her roman­tic part­ner David Blakely, and she was the last woman hanged in the United Kingdom on July 13, 1955. A press release from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice explains that this…