Ellis was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, after being convicted of the murder of her 25-year-old lover David Blakely on 10 April 1955. (13 July 1955)
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Horfield Prison
Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.
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Thursday 3rd of May 1934 (-) — Murderer Reginald Hinks is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint.
Tuesday 24th of February 1953 (-) — Cricketer and murderer Miles Giffard is executed by hanging. Giffard had beaten his 53-year-old father Charles and mother Elizabeth to death with a lead pipe on 7 November 1952. Giffard took the bodies and tipped them over the cliff at the end of the garden and then got in the car and drove to see his girlfriend in London.