In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death penalty in the UK, and 70 years later her family is seeking a posthumous ...
The granddaughter of the last woman to be hanged in the UK has revealed how the execution triggered a horrifying chain of ...
Apart from the dramatic passion of her crime, Ruth Ellis gained notoriety for one other fact – she was the last woman to be executed in the UK, to an outpouring of public anger. The nightclub hostess ...
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 ...
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 ...
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