In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death ...

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 ...