Lucy Boynton did not know much about the story of Ruth Ellis, Britain’s last woman to hang, before agreeing to star in the Britbox series “A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.” She found Carol Ann ...

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 ...

The high-profile life of nightclub manager Ruth Ellis who shot her racing driver lover exposed the British obsession with class and sex. Her equally public death eventually led to the introduction of ...

At age 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the U.K. after she fatally shot her playboy lover, and her controversial conviction is raising questions 70 years later. Ellis' ...