Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, will receive a conditional pardon in recognition of a "profound injustice," Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy announced in parliament on Wednesday, after a decades-long campaign by her family.
Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub hostess, was hanged in July 1955 for shooting dead her racing driver lover David Blakely as he came out of the Magdala pub in London.
