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Ruth Ellis, the last woman ever hanged in Britain, is getting a posthumous reprieve—King Charles has commuted her 1955 death sentence to life imprisonment, calling it a symbolic act to right a historical injustice. New evidence suggests she was a victim of domestic abuse and control, a perspective that would have been unthinkable back then. Her grandchildren pushed for this change, hoping it brings closure to her family. While the UK abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and fully ended executions in 1998, this move marks a powerful moment of societal reckoning, acknowledging how far we’ve come in understanding the complexities of justice and trauma.

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