In a surprise announcement, Lammy said the King has granted a conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK in 1955, after she was convicted of murdering her abusive lover.
Her sentence will be commuted from execution to life in prison. “While the pardon does not claim she was innocent of killing David Blakely,” Lammy said, the change in sentence recognises “a profound injustice in this exceptional case”.
“Justice has finally been done,” her granddaughter said afterwards.
Source: Ruth Ellis – last woman to be hanged in UK – gets conditional posthumous pardon – BBC News