In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner, a scandal that gripped the nation. But the murder ...
For this next story, we're going to take you back in time to a 1950s true crime story. It's about murder, execution by hanging and legal mistakes that led Britain to abolish its death penalty. NPR's ...
Yet Ruth Ellis is no fictional character. She was flesh-and-blood real and her story is true. The bare facts are as follows. A 28-year-old model, nightclub hostess and mother-of-two, she was executed ...