Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
MovieTitle | Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Nov 6, 2008 |
Genre | History, Drama, Crime |
Director | Ralph Wilcox |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Schuster's Cash, Laughing Crow Entertainment |
Budget | $2,500,000 |
Run time | 100 min. |
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.