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Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her...Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair in the state of Georgia and was executed in 1945. She was pardoned posthumously in 2005.

Events

• April 29th , 1944, Lena Baker kills Ernest Knight in self-defence

• August 14th , 1944, Lena Baker is found guilty of murder

• March 5th , 1945, Lena Baker is executed by electrocution

Directed by Ralph Wilcox

Starring Tichina Arnold, Beverly Todd, Peter Coyote, Michael Rooker