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Lena Baker

1900–1945

United States

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Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 – March 5, 1945) was an African American woman in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was convicted of capital murder of Ernest Knight, a white man who had sexually assaulted her. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945. Baker was the only woman in Georgia ever to be executed by electrocution.

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