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title: "Velma Barfield: The Death-Row Granny"
description: "The shocking true story of Velma Barfield, a grandmotherly poisoner who murdered five people with arsenic to feed her drug addiction and maintain control, becoming the first woman executed by lethal injection in the United States."
url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/velma-barfield-death-row-granny.md
canonical: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/velma-barfield-death-row-granny
datePublished: 2025-12-10
dateModified: 2026-07-28
author:
  - name: Dana Ortiz
    url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/author/dana-ortiz
publisher: Casual Criminalist
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summaryUrl: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/velma-barfield-death-row-granny.md.summary.md
---

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The shocking true story of Velma Barfield, a grandmotherly poisoner who murdered five people with arsenic to feed her drug addiction and maintain control, becoming the first woman executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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