Velma Barfield [SEP] convicted of
Velma Barfield
Margie Velma Barfield (née Bullard) (October 29, 1932 – November 2, 1984) was an American serial killer who was convicted of one murder, but who 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 and the first since 1962. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection.
History.
Velma Barfield was born in rural South Carolina, but was raised near Fayetteville,
Stephanie Bennett.
- Perrie Simpson - Executed on January 20, 2006.
- Velma Barfield- was housed at Central Prison due to the lack of a women's death row unit in North Carolina at the time of her execution in 1974. Following her execution, a women's death row unit was established at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women.
- Henry Louis Wallace
- Otto Wood
- Thomas Martens - former FBI agent convicted of killing his son-in-law with a baseball bat and paving