Conditional pardon granted for Ruth Ellis, last woman executed in UK

Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the UK (hanged in 1955), has been granted a posthumous conditional pardon by the King, replacing the death sentence with life imprisonment.
Her family — after a decades-long campaign — say Ellis was a victim of sustained domestic abuse; her granddaughter called the pardon a measure of peace after two generations of shame.
The decision is being hailed as a landmark acknowledgment that past courts failed to recognise domestic abuse, prompting renewed calls for the justice system to better protect survivors.