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 ...

While it’s still frequently hard to escape the feeling that the world is designed around the whims of rich, careless, selfish, white men, this was even more emphatically the case in 1955. As ITV’s new ...

The high-profile life of nightclub manager Ruth Ellis who shot her racing driver lover exposed the British obsession with class and sex. Her equally public death eventually led to the introduction of ...