Gillian turns her attention to Ruth's trial, which took just a day and a half. Her lawyer pursued a risky defence strategy. Gillian Pachter looks at Ruth's execution and the last-minute attempts to ...

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 ...

In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian Pachter re-examines the case.