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

It’s a true crime case that continues to hold interest: The 1955 hanging of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Britain. Ellis, 28, was damned for shooting David Blakely, her physically abusive, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It can be hard to review films and shows based on a real person’s life. How accurate is the portrayal? What vital context are we, as the audience, missing? Somehow, it becomes even more difficult when ...

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 ...