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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]
Dorothy Beasley (1969): [16] First female judge in Fulton County, Georgia (1977) Glenda Hatchett (1977): [18] First African American female to become the Chief Presiding Judge of the Fulton County, Georgia Juvenile Court (1990) Tiffany Carter-Sellers: [73] First (African American) female to serve as the municipal court judge for South Fulton ...
Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state) Capital punishment in the United States; Furman v. Georgia, the 1972 United States Supreme Court case that led to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States; the moratorium came to an end when Gregg v. Georgia was decided in 1976; Gregg v.
Vance was killed instantly and his wife, Helen, was seriously injured. After an intensive investigation, the federal government charged Walter Leroy Moody Jr. with the murders of Judge Vance and of Robert E. Robinson, a black civil rights attorney in Savannah, Georgia, who had been killed in a separate explosion. Moody was eventually convicted ...
A judge on Thursday signed the order for the execution of Willie James Pye, who was convicted of murder and other crimes in the November 1993 killing of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. Pye, 59, would be ...
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A federal judge in Georgia on Thursday ... Judge upholds Republican-drawn Georgia congressional map. Wes Bruer, CNN. December 28, 2023 at 11:41 AM ... The Pioneer Woman.
The Judiciary Act of 1869 allowed judges to receive a pension upon retirement, and beginning in 1919, the retirement of judges from active duty was further facilitated by legislation creating senior status, in which a judge could retire from full-time service while continuing to receive full pay for engaging in a lighter amount of work. [5]