The death penalty was suspended in 1965, but abolished four years later. Julian Knowles QC told 5 live's Peter Allen about the furore surrounding these cases.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination. This week, ...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is a gripping new true crime story focused on its titular protagonist, played by Lucy ...

The grandchildren of the last woman to be executed in Britain have called for Ruth Ellis to be pardoned, 70 years after she was sent to the gallows for murdering her "abusive" lover, their lawyers ...

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 ...

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 ...