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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruth Ellis was hanged at Holloway prison on July 13, 1955 - Evening Standard Lawyers representing the family of Ruth Ellis, the ...

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 grandchildren of the last woman to be hanged in Britain are seeking a posthumous pardon, in light of evidence that she was physically and emotionally abused by her partner before killing him. Ruth ...