It seems like no coincidence, then, that we read Esther and Ruth at the beginning and end of this period in the year.

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 ...

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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.

A 12-year-old boy in Indiana found a rare card baseball card signed by the legend Babe Ruth in an exciting moment with his grandfather.

Ruth Ellis was the last woman executed in Great Britain; what’s surprising is that her execution happened only 70 years ago, in 1955. In fact, between the time she admitted to killing her lover ...

A failed real estate deal has brought the curtain down on a Virginia Repertory Theatre production slated to run in the coming weeks and left the nonprofit once again searching for additional financial ...