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 smal ...

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. On Aug. 30 ...

ATLANTA - The only woman ever to die in Georgia's electric chair is receiving a headstone at a dedication ceremony, more than 65 years after she was executed. The Lena Baker dedication today at ...

Lena Baker claimed she was being held against ... Now the relatives of the only woman ever executed in Georgia's electric chair are returning to Cuthbert to honor Baker and try to clear her ...

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has decided to pardon Lena Baker and ... the pardon. While Baker was the only woman executed in the state’s electric chair, Lipscomb said at least ...

She was convicted of murder by a jury of 12 white men and sentenced to die in the electric chair ... There he met Lena Bond Philips, who'd written a novel about Baker. Everything soon fell ...

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. In August 1944 Baker told the court ...

LA-based American World Pictures (AWP) has acquired worldwide rights to The Lena Baker Story, about the first woman in the state of Georgia to die in the electric chair. AWP will screen the film ...