Pardon for 'sex slave' executed for killing her abusive captor

[Proletariat]

I really don't think there is any comment which can describe my utter disgust at this... Mods if you want to delete it thats fine. But even if one more person sees this that will be great.

It has taken more than 60 years, but finally the state of Georgia is to pardon Lena Baker for a killing that it is unlikely to have been considered a murder anywhere but in the racist, segregated world of the old Deep South.

Ms Baker was a black maid, aged 44, who in March 1945 became the first, and only, woman to die in Georgia's electric chair. Her crime was to have killed her white master - a man who, she claimed, kept her as a sexual slave and she killed in self-defence when he was about to attack her with a crowbar.

Now, for only the third time in its history, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has issued a posthumous pardon. On 30 August, the board will present a proclamation to her descendants, acknowledging that the death sentence was a terrible miscarriage of justice.


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article306425.ece

Sick. How many times did this same thing happen?

God knows.

 

[CQuinn]

Let me be sure you are understood. The disgust is over:

A. The Maid being kept as a sex slave.

B. The state pardoning her posthumously for killing in self defense

C. That they sentenced her to death for it in the first place?

Sick. How many times did this same thing happen?

Perhaps the question you should ask is how often is it still happening.

 

[imported_Kensai]

I want sex slaves.. 🙁

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Proletariat
I really don't think there is any comment which can describe my utter disgust at this... Mods if you want to delete it thats fine. But even if one more person sees this that will be great.

Same question as CQuinn. I'm presuming your disgust is over the whole tragedy occuring, not that the state has admitted it's mistake... Right?

 

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by: Kensai
I want sex slaves.. 🙁

They're more trouble than their worth.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Amplifier

Originally posted by: Kensai
I want sex slaves.. 🙁

They're more trouble than their worth.

Hell, the willing ones are more funny anyhow...

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: CQuinn
Let me be sure you are understood. The disgust is over:

A. The Maid being kept as a sex slave.

B. The state pardoning her posthumously for killing in self defense

C. That they sentenced her to death for it in the first place?

Sick. How many times did this same thing happen?

Perhaps the question you should ask is how often is it still happening.

im going to go out on a limb and suggest that he is disgusted by:

1. the sex slave being kept.
2. the fact that she was convicted of murder in an apparent self-defense situation.
3. that she was not only convicted but then sentenced to die for the above "crime."
4. it has taken so damn long for the state to officially pardon this woman.

im sure there are some more subtle disgusted feelings in the mix about the justice system and the manner in which the culture would allow certain crimes to exist and then punish the
vigilante-style justice that was put forth by the victim. probably not too thrilled by the response thus far either.

 

[Perknose]

But the shining, sacred, Southern concept of States Rights made this whole thing necessary. Some sacrifices had to be made.