@psychologyassessments: To her neighbors, Velma Barfield was a devoted mother, a caring nurse’s aide, and a regular in the church pew. Behind that image, she was slipping arsenic into the food and drinks of her fiancé, her own mother, and the elderly people she was paid to look after. After her arrest, she found religion and won the support of Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, who pleaded for her life. On November 2, 1984, Barfield was executed by lethal injection in Raleigh, the first woman executed in the U.S. since the death penalty’s return and the first to die by lethal injection. This is the story of the Death Row Granny. Was her conversion a real change of heart, or a last attempt to escape the needle? #TrueCrime #DeathRow #OnThisDay #murder #scary

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