FOR more than 70 years, the hanging of Ruth Ellis has been a stain on our criminal justice system. The 28-year-old nightclub ...

Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old nightclub hostess, was hanged in July 1955 for shooting dead racing driver David Blakely as he came ...

Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess, was executed on 13 July 1955 after being convicted of murdering her lover, David Blakely.

The grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, originally from Basingstoke, are seeking a posthumous pardon.

Ruth Ellis was 28 years old and the mother of two young children when she was sent to the gallows for the murder of former ...

Ms Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the UK and her death became politicised in the discussion of the death penalty in ...

Decades after she became the last woman to be executed in Britain, Ruth Ellis's family fights to rewrite history, revealing haunting truths of abuse that challenge the justice she received.

The grandchildren of the last woman to be hanged in Britain are seeking a posthumous pardon, saying she was physically and emotionally abused by ...