DETROIT – When homeless LGBTQ youth need help the Ruth Ellis Center is there for them. Now, the center is involved in several expansion projects, a winter outerwear drive, and a national project that ...

HIGHLAND PARK – The Ruth Ellis Center is celebrating its 15th anniversary serving youth in Detroit and the metropolitan area. Established in 1999, Ruth Ellis Center (REC) has been and continues to be ...

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, ...

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' ...

Created by Kelly Jones and based on Carol Anne Lee’s biography, “A Fine Day for Hanging,” BritBox’s “A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story” is a gutting, engaging historical crime drama revolving around ...

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 ...

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 hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death penalty in the UK, and 70 years later her family is seeking a posthumous ...