The pardon was sought by her grandchildren, who have long fought to reduce her conviction because the repeated sexual, emotional and physical abuse Ellis endured was not considered during the trial or afterward, when she could have been granted a reprieve from the death penalty.
“Justice has finally been done,” Laura Enston, a granddaughter, said in a statement. “This pardon does not undo what happened 71 years ago. It does not restore the lives that were broken — the children left behind, the years lost. But it says, formally and finally, that Ruth should not have been executed; that the justice system failed her. That acknowledgment matters profoundly to our family.”
While from the outside this feels like little more than a token gesture, it at least seems to have brought closure to her surviving grandchildren - to have this failure by the justice system acknowledged and apologised for in a official and public capacity.
And so they should be.
Exactly what other use would someone have out in public for a pair of glasses that silently and stealthily record the world around them on a whim?
Google was literally bashed for exactly this same reason with the Glass. Its not that people dislike the idea of portable recordings, that’s what we have action cams for - it’s the desperate attempt to conceal a recording device into glasses.
The market is basically only vloggers and perverts, and the vloggers are perfectly content with wearing way less creepy action cams.