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Only Woman to get Electric Chair in Georgia

Friday, September 30, 2011

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The crimes that African Americans committed and did not commit have long been given exceptionally lengthy  sentences and/or extreme penalties.  One of the worst abuse of justice went to a black woman in Georgia in 1945.  She was sentenced to die in the electric chair for killing a white man.

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