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From glamour model to nightclub manager - who was pardoned killer Ruth Ellis?
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Ruth Ellis, who was executed in the United Kingdom in 1955, was granted a conditional posthumous pardon. Ellis was the last woman to be executed in the UK.
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