One has to question the point of this! If you read about her, yes she shot him, but there were a lot of reasons and things going on in her life,
Her family have campaigned for her murder conviction to be overturned, arguing she was a victim of domestic abuse and was physically and emotionally abused by Blakely before shooting him.
So why not do this and reduce the charge rather than this.
I todays courts she may have face around 14 years in prison with good behaviour.
With the state the country is in, you would think that the King and Parlement had more pressing things to do.
The last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom will receive a conditional pardon, though she will not be exonerated, David Lammy has confirmed. Ruth Ellis, who was born in Rhyl, was executed in 1955 after shooting dead David Blakely.
The Deputy Prime Minister announced the pardon will commute her death sentence to one of life imprisonment "to recognise a profound injustice in this exceptional case".
Addressing the Commons, he said: "We hope this brings a measure of peace to Ruth Ellis's family, who have carried the weight of what happened to her for over 70 years."
Ellis, a nightclub hostess, was executed on July 13, 1955 after being convicted of murdering David Blakely. The sentence was carried out at Holloway Prison.
Ellis shot Blakely dead outside The Magdala pub in Hampstead, London, in April 1955.
Mr Lammy made the announcement as he stood in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, while Sir Keir is at the Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey.
He said: "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."
Mr Lammy also said her grandchildren Laura Enston and Stephen Beard were in Parliament to see him make the announcement.
Ms Enston said in a statement: "Today, justice has finally been done for our grandmother, Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged in England in 1955.
"This pardon does not undo what happened 71 years ago. It does not restore the lives that were broken – the children left behind, the years lost.
But it says, formally and finally, that Ruth should not have been executed, that the justice system failed her.
"That acknowledgement matters profoundly to our family. Ruth was a victim of sustained and brutal abuse.
"Her children, our mother and uncle, never recovered. My uncle took his own life, my mother's trauma left her unable to be the parent we needed.
"The shadow of Ruth's execution has fallen across two generations. We have carried shame that was never ours to bear."
From....https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ruth-ellis-granted-conditional-pardon-34257832
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