Ruth Ellis has been posthumously pardoned after a long campaign by her family to get the government to overturn her murder conviction. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy told MPs that a pardon had been ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, will receive a conditional pardon in recognition of a "profound injustice," Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy announced in parliament on Wednesday ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, is being granted a conditional posthumous pardon - here's what that means "While the pardon does not claim she was innocent... it replaces the death ...

LONDON — More than seven decades after she became the last woman executed in Britain, Ruth Ellis has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon in a move British officials say acknowledges the ...

LONDON — The last woman to be executed in Britain, for gunning down her abusive lover outside a London pub more than 70 years ago, has been posthumously granted a conditional pardon, Deputy Prime ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Ellis shot her lover David Blakely dead outside The Magdala pub in Hampstead, ...

The last woman to be executed in Britain, who gunned down her abusive lover outside a London pub more than 70 years ago, will be conditionally pardoned, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said ...