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 ...

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

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 ...

Lena Baker, 44, the only woman put to death in Georgia’s electric chair, had maintained until she was put to death in 1945 that she shot E.B. Knight in self-defense. Members of the Georgia Board ...

A woman sent to the electric chair in the US state of Georgia 60 years ago is to receive a posthumous pardon. Lena Baker, a black woman who died aged 44, was convicted of killing white employer Ernest ...

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 ...

Curry is the great-grandnephew of Lena Baker, who in 1945, became the only woman to die in Georgia's electric chair after she was convicted by an all-white jury of killing a white mill operator in ...

April 1, 2008 Colquitt-- Lena Baker may not be a name you've heard before, but she holds a place in Georgia history. She was the only woman ever sent to the electric chair in Georgia.

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 ...