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 ...

Lena Baker was a maid who was brutally raped by her employer, and fatally shot him after he threatened to scar her with a scorching hot branding iron. An all-White, all-male jury convicted her of ...

‘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 ...

Stephen C. O’Connell never relented. Frederick Douglass never smiled. And Lena Baker never had a chance. Would the University of Florida’s “Black Thursday” demonstrations have happened if ...

BAKER Lena Marie Baker, 75, of Eldon, passed away Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. Survivors include: Husband, Chuck Harbison of the home; children ...