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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...