The UK grants a conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Britain, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy announces and describes the case as a "profound injustice".The pardon, approved by King Charles III on the advice of the UK government, replaces Ellis's 1955 death sentence with a life imprisonment record while explicitly stopping short of declaring innocence.Ellis was hanged after killing her lover, race-car driver David Blakely, outside a London pub; family members say the original trial failed to consider long-term physical and emotional abuse that grandchildren later documented.The case helped shift opinion and law in the
UK, contributing to the introduction of diminished responsibility in 1957 and to moves that ended the death penalty for murder in the 1960s, and family members say the pardon recognises multigenerational harm.