Proclamation Issued

Summary of Article | Smh: August 16, 2005 | 10:49AM
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Executed woman finally gets pardon
Following a one-day trial before an all-white, all-male jury in Georgia, Lena Baker, from the church choir, became the only woman ever executed in Georgia's electric chair. Today, she is now being granted a posthumous pardon...
~60 years after her death.~
In response, Baker's grandnephew, Roosevelt Curry, who has led the family's effort to clear her name, said, "I believe she's somewhere around God's throne and can look down and smile."