Convicted serial killer; murders including her mother and husband (hence the nickname, The Black Widow). Prosecuted for the death of Stuart Taylor by Joe Freeman Britt.
First woman to be executed by lethal injection, and the first woman to be executed in the USA since 1962. Among the witnesses to the execution were AP reporter Dennis Patterson; Alice Taylor Storms, daughter of Barfield's last victim Stuart Taylor; Barfield's attorney Jimmie Little; and Barfield's son Ronnie Burke.