CUTHBERT, Ga. (WALB) - A pardoning decades in the making. The story of Lena Baker, the only woman put to death by an electric chair in the state of Georgia, is still being set straight in the smal ...

Lena Baker never had a chance. She was a poor and barely educated Black woman in southwest Georgia in the early 1940s, with few options. So when she wrestled a gun away from Ernest B. Knight ...

Cuthbert- It was a special Mother's day for Lena Baker's family and Cuthbert residents, as they held a memorial service for Baker, the first woman electrocuted in the state. Tears flowed from many ...

is also based on actual events. To a point. And it, too, insists that the audience tussle with issues of crime, justice and, in Lena Baker’s case, how capital punishment can itself be criminal.

CUTHBERT, Ga. — Lena Baker claimed that she was being held against her will by a drunken white man and acted in self-defense when she wrested his gun away and shot him. For a black maid in the ...

Lena Baker said she acted in self-defense, but a jury of white men convicted her after a one-day trial. Baker is the only woman to have been executed in the state's electric chair. On Aug. 30 ...

‘Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story’ is a story of courage and perseverance, although story gaps which are never addressed lend to a bit of confusion for the viewer. Arnold ’s ...