Velma Barfield
Criminal
The first woman to be executed by lethal injection in the U.S., and the first woman to be executed after the 1976 resumption of the death penalty.
She developed an addiction to drugs after a surgery caused her to have chronic and severe back pain.
She was convicted of killing one person, but she confessed to killing six.
She was married twice and both husbands died.
She was a female killer, like serial killer Aileen Wuornos.