A new historical drama featuring Harry Potter and Game of Thrones favourites will debut on ITV this week. A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story focuses on the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be ...

“A woman like her, they were never going to let her off,” says the barrister in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (ITV1). Ellis was a nightclub manager, a former escort, a neglectful mother, a bottle ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination. This week, ITV will premiere a new dramatisation of Ellis’s life, crime, and ...

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 ...