caption country states death_date death_place birth_place cause name penalty birth_date victims beginyear article_title endyear birth_name apprehended
mugshot united states north carolina 2 november 1984 raleigh , north carolina south carolina lethal injection velma barfield death 29 october 1932 6 1971 velma barfield
 june 4 , 1978 margie velma bullard 1978
velma barfield

margie velma barfield -lrb- née margie velma bullard -rrb- -lrb- october 29 , 1932 -- november 2 , 1984 -rrb- was an american serial killer , convicted of one murder , but she eventually confessed to six murders .
she was the first woman in the united states to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962 .
she was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection .
