The only female inmate on death row in the state of Georgia is scheduled to die by lethal injection later this month.
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The last woman to be executed in the state died by electrocution in 1945. An all-white jury convicted Lena Baker, a black maid, of fatally shooting her employer with his own gun after he threatened her. The state pardoned Baker in 2005, agreeing that she had acted in self defense.
