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Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 – March 5, 1945) was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was convicted of capital murder of a white man, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution.
9 de jul. de 2021 · It would take four months for Lena’s case to go to trial, and there wasn’t much she could do or say. She claimed self-defense, but it was no use. The whole ordeal reportedly lasted four hours, and in the end, a jury of 12 White men found Lena Baker guilty and sentenced her to death.
8 de jul. de 2020 · Lena Baker was an African-American woman convicted of killing her white employer Ernest Knight by the State of Georgia in 1944 at the age of 44. The only woman executed in Georgia’s electric...
9 de dic. de 2005 · In 1945 Lena Baker became the first, and to date only, woman to be executed in Georgia. Convicted of murdering her employer, Baker was sentenced to death despite her insistence that she acted in self-defense. In 2005 she was pardoned posthumously by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Lena Baker (June 8, 1901 – March 5, 1945) was an African American maid who was executed for murder by the State of Georgia in 1945 for killing her employer, Ernest Knight in 1944. At her trial she claimed that he had imprisoned and threatened to shoot her should she attempt to leave, whereupon she took his gun and shot him.
19 de ago. de 2022 · Aug 19, 2022. -- 3. Lena Baker; Source: Face2faceAfrica. ena Baker was an African American woman who was executed by the State of Georgia because she killed her employer, Ernest Knight in 1944....
30 de sept. de 2015 · Lena Baker, electrocutada en 1945, fue la última mujer en ser ejecutada en el estado de Georgia acusada de asesinato, pena que en 2005 fue oficialmente perdonada al considerarse que actuó en ...
