Baker was held as a 'slave woman' by her employer Ernest Knight and she shot him in self-defense during a struggle. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution. (5 March 1945)
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Monday 22nd of May 1978 (-) — Mobster and crime boss Joseph Colombo dies of cardiac arrest in a vegetative state after being shot in the head on 28 June 1971. In 1975 a court-ordered examination showed that Colombo could move his thumb and forefinger on his right hand. In 1976 there were reports that he could recognize people and utter several words.