“When I go into that chamber at 2am, it’s my gateway to heaven.”
-Velma Barfield, the first woman to be killed by lethal injection after being convicted of poisoning six people.
Barfield, once a private nurse, confessed to poisoning her fiance as well as five other people: her mother, two patients, and two others. Nevertheless, she attracted a fervent following who believed her claims that she had acted under the influence of a variety of prescription drugs.