Created by Kelly Jones and based on Carol Anne Lee’s biography, “A Fine Day for Hanging,” BritBox’s “A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story” is a gutting, engaging historical crime drama revolving around ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grandchildren of the last woman to be executed in Britain have called for Ruth Ellis to be pardoned, 70 years after she was ...