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Only Georgian Woman sent to the Electric Chair: Lena Baker / Ernest Knight
Golden Rule #4: Don’t Mess Around and Find Out. Come back in time with me to a segregation happy time where a black woman was sentenced to death for killing her employer.
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Victim: Ernest Knight
Suspect: Lena Baker
Case Sources
https://gdc.ga.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/Death_penalty_in_Georgia.pdf
https://www.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/not_guilty/lena_baker/6.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/17/usa.garyyounge1
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4818124
http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_29/baker_posthumous_jd29.pdf
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lena-baker-case/
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/race-relations-in-1930s-and-1940s/
https://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/where-i-was-i-could-not-overcome-it-ep-417537393-356745071.html
https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/baker-lena.htm
https://crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/not_guilty/lena_baker/index.html