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Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed on March 5, 1945, for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate.
Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 – March 5, 1945) [1] was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was convicted of capital murder of a white man, 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]
Pye is scheduled to be the first person executed in Georgia since January 2020. ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man convicted […] The post Georgia slated to execute Willie James Pye, whose lawyers ...
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
Pye was the 77th person to be executed in Georgia since 1976, and as of the time of Pye's execution, 36 men and one woman (Tiffany Moss) were still held on death row in Georgia. [33] [34] Pye was the third person to be executed in the United States during the year of 2024. [35]
Pye had been on the state’s death row for 28 years. The last person in Georgia to be executed was Donnie Cleveland Lance in 2020. Executions in the state came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Georgia's parole board has rejected clemency for a condemned man set to die Wednesday night, clearing the way for the state's first execution in more than four years. Lawyers for Willie James Pye ...
McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death sentence of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in the Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to mitigate a death penalty determination without showing a "racially discriminatory ...