At 9am on July 13, 1955, Ruth Ellis was led out to the scaffold at HMP Holloway to meet the legendary hangman Albert Pierrepoint and became the last woman hanged in the UK.

This week, ITV will premiere a new dramatisation of Ellis’s life, crime, and eventual execution. Lucy Boynton will play the central role in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Stor y.

THE macabre notebook listing every execution carried out by Britain’s most famous hangman has sold at auction for £12,400. Albert Pierrepoint kept the pocket book throughout his 25 year caree… ...

Behind the scenes and more on A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story The series is produced by critically acclaimed producers, Silverprint Pictures, part of ITV Studios, whose portfolio includes ...

Britain's most prolific hangman Albert Pierrepoint was responsible for the deaths of more than 400 people but in later life he questioned if it had been worth it ...

Ruth Ellis was hanged at 9.01am on 13 July 1955, and was buried in an unmarked grave within the walls of Holloway Prison - her children were aged 10 and three-years-old at the time.

In 1955, at the age of 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK. Her death, coming after she shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub two months before, sparked a wave ...

There’s much that marks out Ruth Ellis’ execution as a source of fascination, 63 years since it took place in Holloway Prison, London. History books will tell us that it’s because she was ...

Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold s new ...