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Was the last woman hanged in Britain the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice? A new campaign is calling for her to be PARDONED after extraordinary evidence came to light
As the crowds gathered outside Holloway Prison in London on a warm summer's morning in July 1955, the tinkling of the popular tune La Vie En Rose wafted out of the condemned cell, played by the ...
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Lucy Boynton on Playing the Last Woman Hanged in Britain in ‘A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story’
Calling her research process “a huge education,” she recalls “understanding the context of the ’50s and how that affected who she was as a woman, and how that created both her as a person ...
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A CRUEL LOVE: THE RUTH ELLIS STORY : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Ruth Ellis was the last woman executed in Great Britain; what’s surprising is that her execution happened only 70 years ago, in 1955. In fact, between the time she admitted to killing her lover ...
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On TV tonight: The tragic story of the last British woman to be hanged
Stephen Beard, the grandson of Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, is currently campaigning for his grandmother to ...