Velma Barfield: Beneath the Bible and the Bottle - The Comprehensive Biography of a Woman Who Killed with Arsenic and a Smile

She Smiled, She Prayed, She Killed, The True Story of Velma BarfieldVelma Barfield, a grandmother cloaked in faith and devotion, hid a deadly secret beneath her gentle exterior. Known as the first woman executed in the United States after the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, her life is a haunting tapestry of love, loss, addiction, and murder. From her humble beginnings in North Carolina t...