Ruth Ellis

Pardonable?

This is Ruth Ellis, convicted of shooting her faithless lover David Blakeley in 1955. She was the thirteenth - and last - woman to be executed in the twentieth century.

I do wonder with these capital crimes. How much the horror of the ending can confuse our judgment.

A new four-part drama, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, starring Lucy Boynton and Toby…