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Velma Margie Barfield (October 29, 1932 - November 2, 1984) was the first woman in the United States to be executed since 1962. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. Velma's first known encounter with a death of someone close to her was her first husband, Thomas Burke, who died of smoke inhalation when the family's house caught fire. Strangely enough, only a few months later, their house burst into flame again, …

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	Velma Barfield | English |... Velma Margie Barfield ( October 29 , 1932 - November 2 , 1984 ) was the first woman in the United States to be executed since 1962 . She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection . Velma's first known encounter with a death of someone www.babylon.com/definition/Velma_Barfield/English
	All about Velma Barfield by... Soon authorities took a second look at the death certificates of the several people close to Velma Barfield who had died. Even when an autopsy had been performed, no special test had been done for poison. Rather, with stunning regularity, those she knew www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/velma_barfie...
	Women and the Death Penalty Velma Barfield in North Carolina on November 2, 1984 - She was in a relationship with Stuart Taylor who was a widower. She forged checks on Taylor 's account to pay for her addiction. Fearing that she had been found out, she mixed an arsenic based rat p www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=230&scid=24

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