what year was Ruth ellis hung?

Question

murderess who shot david blakley

Answer 1

Ruth Ellis (October 9, 1926 – July 13, 1955) was a British murderer who was the last woman to be executed in the UK. She was convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, and hanged at London's Holloway Prison.

Answer 2

I was ten years old and and alone at home listening to the BBC Home Service (now radio 4) when the newscaster brought the news on the stroke of the hour, that Ruth Ellis was being hanged inside the prison walls. And the long seconds of silence that followed, as she hung, was awful to experience. Since I was born in 1945, it had to be 1955.

I will never forget the solemnity of his voice, nor the awful chill inside of me, because I had also read about the case in the papers that my parents had delivered daily, The Mirror and The Sketch. And I did not believe she should have hung... but then I don't agree with hanging anyway. I was a Christian then, and am a Christian now, so my views have never changed.

But more than this, something in me told me she was driven, that she should have had a better defence, that she was sadly acting out of passion, and that like the French courts allow, there should have allowance for the plea of 'crime of passion'.

When her name is mentioned, I can still recall the awfulness I felt, and the tears I cried alone, for a woman that I never knew.

An eye for an eye, does nothing good for humanity, it did not then, and does not now, convince me ever, that we are showing younger burgeoning democracies, that we in the west, are any wiser than the cave man!

Answer 3

13 July 1955

Answer 4

1955

Answer 5

I believe it was in July, 1955...maybe somewhere around the 13th/14th?

I found it....
Ruth Ellis, aged 28, was the last lady executed in the UK. Her trial at The Old Bailey and execution at London's Holloway Prison on 13 July 1955 ....

Answer 6

1955 july 13.

Answer 7

July 1995. She was the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and there was some controversy about the sentence as It was what would be called, a crime of Passion.

Answer 8

she was no murderess in d true sense.she never wanted to shoot d man.d circumstances which led her to shoot him r indeed sad.she's britain's last woman to be hanged.tht's why after her it was to be no more.d public felt she shld not be hanged.a lot of outcry.she was hanged on july 13th 1955.

Answer 9

13th July 1955

hanged

Answer 10

Hello
1955
But a lot of people think she did not desrve to die

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