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Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story (2008)

Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story (2008)

Drama Crime History
Release Date: 2008, November 6
Directors: Ralph Wilcox
Countries: United States of America
Production: Schuster's Cash, Laughing Crow Entertainment
Cast: Peter Coyote, L. Warren Young, Kenny Cook, Mike Hickman, Chris Burns, Dwayne Boyd, Tichina Arnold, Jasmine Farmer, Tom Huff

Overview:

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.