“You know, it’s the saddest thing but it seems like everybody my mother ever gets close to dies,” Velma Barfield’s son Ronnie Burke once said, according to the Toronto Sun. “How could the good Lord ...

Ron Colbert: On the morning of November 2nd, 52-year-old grandmother Velma Barfield became the first woman put to death in this country since 1962, 6 years after being convicted of the poisoning ...