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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.
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- June 8, 1900, Cuthbert, Georgia, US
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story is a 2008 historical film. It is an adaptation of the book by Lela Bond Phillips, which chronicles the life and death of Lena Baker, an African-American woman in Georgia who was convicted in 1945 of capital murder and was the only woman to be executed by electric chair.
- Hope & Redemption, by Lela Bond Phillips
- Ralph Wilcox
- Dennis Johnson, Ralph Wilcox
Apr 10, 2008 · Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story: Directed by Ralph Wilcox. With Tichina Arnold, Beverly Todd, Peter Coyote, Michael Rooker. A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Ralph Wilcox
- 2008-04-10
Story by Lenah Allen. • 2mo. C UTHBERT, 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...
Based on true events, THE LENA BAKER STORY recounts one African-American woman's struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her impossible circumstances. 241IMDb 5.71 h 46 min2008. PG-13. Drama · Historical · Suspense. This video is currently unavailable.
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story. A black woman (Tichina Arnold) is executed in 1945 Georgia following the accidental shooting of her abusive boss (Peter Coyote).
- Drama, Biography
Jan 5, 2011 · Tichina Arnold plays the title role in The Lena Baker Story, about a Georgia woman tried for killing her White employer. Baker (l) was the only woman to be executed by electrocution in Georgia. As a young girl in the early 1900s, Lena Baker and her mother pick cotton in rural Cuthbert, Georgia.
