The Last Woman Hanged: Ruth Ellis and the Shooting That Changed Britain
On Easter Sunday 1955, Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely dead outside a London pub. Ninety-four days later she became the last woman executed in the UK.
Her trial lasted barely a day. The jury never heard the full story of the violence she had endured. Decades later, in 2026, she received a posthumous conditional pardon.
This is the true story of the platinum-blonde nightclub hostess, the gun, the miscarriage, and the hanging that helped end the death penalty in Britain.
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