Self-Defense is defined as the useful and reasonable force to avert deadly harm or great infliction from another individual. By the same token, many elements come in to play when deciding the level of force used in a self-defense case. According to Thomas Reuters (2018),” Georgia is one of the states that have “stand your ground” laws. The basic idea behind these laws is that a person who is being threatened by another person's use of force does not have a duty to retreat or back down before he or she can legally use force against the attacker.” As an illustration, let’s think back to the time where opportunities for growth and wealth were little to none for women in the 1900s. Including the irrational laws placed against African-Americans
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Georgia, Baker was the only women executed in Georgia due to the Jim Crow law. These Anti-back laws were formed by racial system between the mid-1960s that were put in place to keep segregation alive. The Justice System was formed against Baker increasing her chances to death because she was black in the 1900s. According to Thomas Reuters (2018),” The self-defense laws of every state allow citizens the right to use force to protect their lives, the lives of others, and sometimes property, without the fear of being punished for actions that are normally considered criminal.” The only downside to the self-defense law in Georgia was the high volume of racism and prejudice around the mid-1960s, innocent people were dying not because of their true characteristics but because the color of their skin. Now, Self-defense is based on the recognition that individuals have a self-defense inherent right to protect themselves and that to reasonably defend oneself from unlawful attack is a natural response to threatening situations (Schmalleger, F.& Hall D, 2017, p.135). Lena Baker was born in Cuthbert, Georgia on June 8, 1901; The era were prejudice and racism was at its all-time …show more content…
According to Schmalleger, F.& Hall D. (2017), “Similarly, it can be argued that a person who acts in self-defense lacks the requisite mens rea for the commission of a crime— that is, a person who kills an attacker does not have as his or her primary purpose the taking of another’s life, but rather the preservation of his or her own. In other words, a person who acts in self-defense does so to save their life another who is intending to afflict detrimental harm. In Bakers case, she was put in a negative predicament that caused her to kill Ernest Knight. Lena Baker was a mother of three children and living below the poverty level. To survive, baker toke on the role of entertaining men for financial gain, which at the time, Prostitution in Georgia was frowned upon by many folks making her very unpopular to the interest of white people. While on the job, Lena spent most of her time serving the sexual fantasies of men like Ernest King, a local gristmill owner. Eventually, after an incident knight hires baker to help him recover from a broken leg. Nevertheless, knight begins to keep baker against her will for days at a time in the
Georgia, Baker was the only women executed in Georgia due to the Jim Crow law. These Anti-back laws were formed by racial system between the mid-1960s that were put in place to keep segregation alive. The Justice System was formed against Baker increasing her chances to death because she was black in the 1900s. According to Thomas Reuters (2018),” The self-defense laws of every state allow citizens the right to use force to protect their lives, the lives of others, and sometimes property, without the fear of being punished for actions that are normally considered criminal.” The only downside to the self-defense law in Georgia was the high volume of racism and prejudice around the mid-1960s, innocent people were dying not because of their true characteristics but because the color of their skin. Now, Self-defense is based on the recognition that individuals have a self-defense inherent right to protect themselves and that to reasonably defend oneself from unlawful attack is a natural response to threatening situations (Schmalleger, F.& Hall D, 2017, p.135). Lena Baker was born in Cuthbert, Georgia on June 8, 1901; The era were prejudice and racism was at its all-time …show more content…
According to Schmalleger, F.& Hall D. (2017), “Similarly, it can be argued that a person who acts in self-defense lacks the requisite mens rea for the commission of a crime— that is, a person who kills an attacker does not have as his or her primary purpose the taking of another’s life, but rather the preservation of his or her own. In other words, a person who acts in self-defense does so to save their life another who is intending to afflict detrimental harm. In Bakers case, she was put in a negative predicament that caused her to kill Ernest Knight. Lena Baker was a mother of three children and living below the poverty level. To survive, baker toke on the role of entertaining men for financial gain, which at the time, Prostitution in Georgia was frowned upon by many folks making her very unpopular to the interest of white people. While on the job, Lena spent most of her time serving the sexual fantasies of men like Ernest King, a local gristmill owner. Eventually, after an incident knight hires baker to help him recover from a broken leg. Nevertheless, knight begins to keep baker against her will for days at a time in the