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She will be feeling much better now…. Last woman hanged in Britain is pardoned King ‘replaces the death penalty’ for nightclub hostess who suffered in violent relationship The King has granted a pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, announced that His Majesty had agreed to the conditional pardon as an “act of mercy recognising the historic injustice of the death penalty in this exceptional case”. Ellis shot and killed David Blakely outside a pub in Hampstead, north London, on April 10, 1955. She was convicted of murder after a trial and executed on July 13 that year. No reprieve was granted, and no appeal was lodged at the time. The application for a pardon was brought by four of Ellis’s grandchildren, who argued that she was the victim of a historical injustice. They claimed that her responsibility was profoundly diminished by the domestic abuse she suffered, trauma and circumstances that were never properly recognised at her trial. On Wednesday, Mr Lammy told the Commons: “I have the honour to say that His Majesty the King has accepted our advice to grant Ruth Ellis a conditional pardon, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. “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.”

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She will be feeling much better now…....[more]	Denc 🗡	14:06:56
>> Await the compo claim	Hamsterwheel	14:09:55
>> No legal basis.	Denc 🗡	14:11:25
>> Starmer and Hermer will find a way.	Hamsterwheel	14:12:49
>> Nah, not Muslim see.	Denc 🗡	14:14:39
>> Nor was Gerry Adams	Hamsterwheel	14:24:54
>> No he is a Cunt.	Denc 🗡	14:28:52

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