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Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 – March 5, 1945) [1] 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. [ 2 ]
The film chronicles the life of Lena Baker, born to a sharecropper family, who later worked as a maid in a small county town to support her three children. Convicted in 1945 of capital murder by an all-white, male jury, Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by the electric chair.
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Dec 9, 2005 · Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be executed in Georgia’s electric chair. She was executed in 1945, after she was convicted of murdering a man who had imprisoned her. At the time of Baker’s execution, the Georgia prison system was under scrutiny for reform.
Jul 9, 2021 · “I have nothing against anyone. 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.
Jul 8, 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...
Aug 19, 2022 · 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. Her execution took...
Aug 26, 2005 · 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.
Lena Baker is Executed. *On his date in 1945, Lena Baker, a Black mother of three, was electrocuted at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville. She was convicted for the fatal shooting of E. B. Knight, a white-Georgia mill operator she was hired to care for after he broke his leg.
Aug 25, 2005 · Minutes before an executioner sent Lena Baker to her death 60 years ago, she explained again why she had shot a white man, a crime that resulted in her being the only woman ever to die in...
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.
