Grandchildren of last woman to be hanged in Britain seek posthumous pardon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : " Under cross-examination, Ellis admitted that she intended to kill Blakely, and the jury took just 20 minutes to convict her of murder - a charge that carried a mandatory death sentence.
27% : The British public was already questioning whether capital punishment had a place in 20th-century society, and Ellis's case was politicised in the discussion of the death penalty as a method of punishment in modern Britain.

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