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Grandchildren Of Last Woman Executed In UK Seek Her Pardon

The grandchildren of the last woman to be executed in Britain have called for Ruth Ellis to be pardoned, 70 years after she was sent to the gallows for murdering her "abusive" lover, their lawyers said Wednesday.

International Business Times

Grandchildren of last woman to be hanged in Britain seek posthumous pardon

Ruth Ellis was executed on 13 July 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover, David Blakely.

Evening Standard

Grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in UK, ask for pardon

David Lammy urged to consider 1955 case in light of evidence Ellis was abused by partner before she killed him

The Guardian - UK

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Dance with a Stranger at 40: Miranda Richardson on playing Britain’s last hanged woman

FLASHBACKS: Four decades ago, the Oscar-nominated star became an overnight sensation for playing Ruth Ellis, a working-class woman sentenced to death for fatally shooting her upper-class lover. Sophie Monks Kaufman speaks to Richardson and her ‘Dance with a Stranger’ director, Mike Newell, about a classic of British cinema

The Independent UK

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story review – the sad, shocking tale of the last woman to be hanged in Britain

Lucy Boynton and Toby Jones’s outstanding performances meet beautifully claustrophobic cinematography in this tale of a young mother sentenced to death for killing her violent lover

The Guardian - UK

A Cruel Love’s true story of Britain’s last executed woman will make you shudder – and sympathise

4/5 Was the last British woman to be executed a victim of misogyny and snobbery? ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’ makes her case

The Independent UK

Nigel Havers’ astonishing real-life family connection to the Ruth Ellis case

He plays his own grandfather in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

Evening Standard

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Who was Ruth Ellis and why was she hanged? The real story behind A Cruel Love

Lucy Boynton portrays Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK, in an unmissable ITV true crime series.

Woman & Home

A Cruel Love: from Toby Jones to Lucy Boynton, who plays who in the Ruth Ellis drama?

The show tells the tragic story of the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder

Evening Standard

Actress Lucy Boynton says society has become ‘desensitised’ to domestic violence

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will air on ITV1 at 9pm on March 5.

Evening Standard

Ruth Ellis: the tragic story of the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK

Her story is being made into ITV show A Cruel Love, which is due to air later this year

Evening Standard

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story: release date, cast, plot, episode guide, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story sees Lucy Boynton play Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK.

WhatToWatch

ITV making drama about Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in the UK

ITV has commissioned a drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain to be hanged, with Lucy Boynton on hand to star in the title role.

WhatToWatch

Ruth Ellis and tragedy of little boy left behind when UK's last woman was hanged

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the UK after she shot her lover dead outside a pub in Hampstead two months earlier

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