Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Silverprint creative director Kate Bartlett and development director Antonia Gordon are executive producers of the series. And ...

The British miniseries A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, premiering on the streaming service BritBox on February 17, “exposes the timeless British obsessions of class, sex, and death” through the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a true crime case that continues to hold interest: The 1955 hanging of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Britain. Ellis, 28, was damned for shooting David Blakely, her physically abusive, ...

The following article contains discussion of themes including domestic abuse, sexual misconduct and suicide. On April 10, 1955 – Easter Sunday – Ruth Ellis arrived at The Magdala pub in Hampstead and ...

Executive producers Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon of Silverprint Pictures took on the tale of an "obsessive relationship" that was "toxic and abusive," meaning "it was important to tell the full ...