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 ...

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 ...

While it’s still frequently hard to escape the feeling that the world is designed around the whims of rich, careless, selfish, white men, this was even more emphatically the case in 1955. As ITV’s new ...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is a gripping new true crime story focused on its titular protagonist, played by Lucy Boynton. The drama, which is out now on ITVX, follows the case of Ruth Ellis, ...

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 ...

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 ...