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Fri May 30, 2014, 06:07 AM May 2014

The Last Woman Hanged in England [View all]

Ruth Ellis of Basingstoke, Hampshire was the last woman to be hanged in England. She was hanged for the murder of her lover, David Blakely, at Royal Holloway Prison on the 13th of July 1955.

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