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 ...
Ruthless: A Night With Ruth Ellis offers an intimate deep-dive into the stories behind Ruth Ellis, whose 1955 hanging remains one of the most controversial in British legal history. The production ...
The grandchildren of the last woman to be hanged in the UK have presented a formal application calling for a posthumous conditional pardon after new evidence emerged, which they say proves Ruth Ellis ...