The Lena Baker Story
A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.
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""The Lena Baker" story is another tragic tale of many involving whites trampling upon the rights and lives of Black folks. This is about Lena Baker (played by Tischina Arnold) who was imprisoned and repeatedly raped by Elliott Arthur (played by Peter Coyote). After years of such treatment off and on, and no help forthcoming from the law, she shot and killed Elliott Arthur. For that she was arrested, tried, convicted, and executed. Lena was born in 1900 and executed in 1945 in Georgia. Because of the blind racism of the whites of Georgia no one could possibly conclude that perhaps Le..."
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Lena Baker was the first woman executed in Georgia, but she was not the first woman to be sentenced to the electric chair. The first woman was Maria Marbella in 1895, but she was retried, and aquitted the next year. The first woman executed by the electric chair was Martha M. Place on March 20, 1899, at Sing Sing prison, for the murder of her stepdaughter Ida Place.
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A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.