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Margie Velma Barfield (née Margie Velma Bullard) (October 29 1932 – November 2 1984) 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.