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 ...

Lena Baker's life feels stable—until a confession ... She lives in Portland, Oregon. And the book is about what one generation passes down to the next in regards to beauty, love, forgiveness ...

Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s opera, based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean ... justice and, in Lena Baker’s case, how capital punishment can itself be criminal. In 1945, Baker became ...

Lena Baker was a maid who killed her boss in self-defense. But she was wrongly accused of murder. Her family says recent books and movies about Baker haven't told the entire truth. 65-years ago ...

‘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 ...

If it hadn't been an appalling case of Jim Crow justice, her tale — subject of "Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story," a film playing this weekend — would have titillated the juiciest tabloids.

CUTHBERT, Ga. -- Lena Baker claimed she was being held against her will by a drunken white man and acted in self-defense when she wrested his gun away and shot him. For a black maid in the ...