Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination. This week, ...

For ITV1’s new four-part drama, Kelly Jones has based her screenplay on Carol Ann Lee’s book A Fine Day for a Hanging: the Real Ruth Ellis Story, and it brings a heavy-calibre cast to bear on the ...

At age 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the U.K. after she fatally shot her playboy lover, and her controversial conviction is raising questions 70 years later. 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 ...