who was the first woman executed in georgia
Lena Baker Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 â€“ March 5, 1945)[1] was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia who was convicted of capital murder of her white employer, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945.[2] Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution. [3][2]