In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner, a scandal that gripped the nation. But the murder ...

“A woman like her, they were never going to let her off,” says the barrister in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (ITV1). Ellis was a nightclub manager, a former escort, a neglectful mother, a bottle ...

The story of Ruth Ellis is a tragic one. Aged 28, she became the last woman to be executed in Britain in 1955, for the crime of shooting her lover, David Blakely, dead in the street. Her case sparked ...

Ruth Ellis' grandchildren believe she should be pardoned [Bettmann Archive/Getty Images] The grandchildren of the last woman to be hanged in Britain are seeking a posthumous pardon, saying she was ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination. This week, ITV will premiere a new dramatisation of Ellis’s life, crime, and ...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is a gripping new true crime story focused on its titular protagonist, played by Lucy ...

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 ...