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 ...

The grandchildren of the last woman to be executed in Britain have called for Ruth Ellis to be pardoned, 70 years after she ...

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 ...

The new ITV drama A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story centres on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain. Set in 1955, the four-part series explores the glamorous world of ...

Who was Ruth Ellis? Ruth Ellis was a Welsh mother of two who worked as a nightclub hostess, model, and one-time background actor. (She had an uncredited role in the 1951 film Lady Godiva Rides Again.) ...

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, ...

Lucy Boynton is known for delivering exceptional performances in films like Sing Street, Bohemian Rhapsody, Chevalier, and The Greatest Hits. Her latest is the BritBox’s limited series A Cruel Love: ...

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 ...

Actress Lucy Boynton joins Morning Joe to discuss the new true crime series 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story,' about the circumstances surrounding the 1955 murder trial of Ruth Ellis. Ellis was a ...