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Margie Velma Barfield (née Bullard; October 29, 1932 – November 2, 1984) was an American serial killer who was convicted of one murder but eventually confessed to six murders in total. Barfield was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment [1] and the first since 1962. [2]
Dec 18, 2021 · Velma Barfield was the first woman executed in the U.S. after the return of capital punishment. But to everyone who knew her, she seemed like a harmless, church-going grandmother.
Nov 2, 2016 · On November 2, 1984, Velma Barfield, from Cumberland County, became the first woman in the nation executed by lethal injection. She was convicted of first-degree murder for the arsenic poisoning of her boyfriend, Stuart Taylor, in 1978.
Velma confessed to four of the murders and was given a death sentence, and although psychiatric witnesses tried to stop Velma from being sentenced, she was convicted in the end – the first woman to be executed since 1962, it was reinstated for her execution.
Velma Barfield was executed on 2 November 1984 at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. She was 52 years old at the time of her execution. She was the first woman put to death by lethal injection in the United States.
Nov 19, 2023 · Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in 1984 and the first woman to be executed after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 for her crimes.
Nov 12, 1984 · She was only one of three convicts put to death last week, and the 29th since the Supreme Court effectively reinstated the death penalty in 1976. But the case of Margie Velma Barfield, 52, was...
