Convicted of first-degree murder for the 1978 arsenic poisoning of her boyfriend Stuart Taylor. She was the first woman executed in the United States after the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty. Executed by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh on November 2, 1984.
Background
Velma Barfield (born Margie Velma Bullard) was an American serial killer who poisoned four people (including her mother and her boyfriend) with arsenic in North Carolina in the 1970s.
Contemporary Raleigh News & Observer and national coverage of the 1978-1984 case and execution
North Carolina Department of Public Safety records
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