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Wesley Baker

1958–2005

United States

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Wesley Eugene Baker (March 26, 1958 – December 5, 2005) was an American convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of Maryland. He was sentenced to death for the June 6, 1991, robbery and murder of Jane Frances Tyson, a mother and grandmother, in front of two of her grandchildren in Catonsville. Baker was the last person to be executed in Maryland before capital punishment was abolished in 2013.

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