Nicknamed the “Death-Row Granny,” Velma Barfield became the first woman executed in the United States after the death penalty ...

A series of “mysterious deaths” surrounded a woman executed 40 years ago in North Carolina, historians said. Margie “Velma” Barfield — nicknamed “Death Row Granny” — wore pink pajamas as she was put ...

On this day, Nov. 2, in 1984, 53-year-old grandmother and a serial poisoner Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection. Known as the “Deathrow Grandma,” Barfield was ...