It’s no spoiler to reveal that Ruth Ellis ( Lucy Boynton ), the lead character in the new four-episode crime show A Cruel Love , died by hanging on July 13, 1955. Ruth was a real woman who committed a very real crime: She shot her lover, David Blakely ( Laurie Davidson ), on Easter the year of her death. But what led the nightclub hostess to carry out such a horrible act?
That’s the question behind A Cruel Love , BritBox’s excellent true-crime drama that explores Ruth’s motivations behind David’s murder, the subsequent trial that dominated the tabloid press and her death by execution, which is still the last time a woman was put to death for…
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