Lena Baker
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 79 years ago |
Date of birth | June 8,1900 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Cuthbert |
Georgia | |
United States | |
Date of died | March 5,1945 |
Died | Georgia State Prison |
Criminal status | Capital punishment |
Children | Nelsie Baker |
James Edward Baker | |
Edna Baker | |
Place of burial | Mount Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery, Georgia, United States |
Convict | Capital murder |
Crimin penalti | Death |
Crimin status | Executed; ; Pardoned; (August 16, 2005) |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 689311 |
Lena Baker Life story
Lena Baker was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was wrongfully convicted of capital murder of a white man, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution.