Lena Brown Baker, our loved one, crossed over into the Land of Glory and entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. She ended her earthly journey of 86 years in Virginia Medical Hospital ...

is also based on actual events. To a point. And it, too, insists that the audience tussle with issues of crime, justice and, in Lena Baker’s case, how capital punishment can itself be criminal.

‘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 ...

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 ...

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.