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While Ruth Ellis is remembered as the last woman to be hanged in Britain, her son Andy has been forgotten. Before he killed himself at the age of 37, he had long conversations with his mother's ...
On July 12, 1955, a notice was posted outside Holloway Prison in London which read: “The sentence of the law passed upon Ruth Ellis, found guilty of murder, will be carried into execution at 9 a.m.