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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.
26 de ago. de 2005 · Baker was executed 60 years ago for killing a white man. She was the only woman to die in the state's electric chair. Lena Baker's trial, conviction and execution took place in Cuthbert, in...
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.
16 de ago. de 2005 · Lena Baker, the only woman executed in Georgia's electric chair, was sentenced to death by an all-white, all-male jury after a trial that lasted just one day.
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...
Status: Executed by electrocution at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville on March 5, 1945. 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.
9 de jul. de 2021 · I am ready to meet my God.” In March 1945, Lena met her fate and was executed via the electric chair—going down in history as the only woman to face execution of that kind in Georgia. She was reportedly buried five miles outside of town behind Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, where Lena used to sing in the choir, in an unmarked grave.
