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 ...

Ms. LELA BOND PHILLIPS (Lena Baker Biographer): She was a black woman. She was from the South. She was poor. She never had a chance in her life. LOHR: Lela Bond Phillips has written a book about ...

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 ...

Based on the book, The Lena Baker Story by Dr. Lela Bond Phillips, the true story now unfolds on the big screen with Hollywood actors like Tichina Arnold from sitcoms like "Martin" and "Everybody ...

‘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. — Lena Baker claimed that 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 ...

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.