NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1984 Page 11
Last appeal refused; N.C. woman executed
By United Press International
RALEIGH, N.C. — Margie Velma Barfield, a grandmother who poisoned her fiance, mother and two others to hide a drug habit, was put to death by lethal injection today in the nation's first execution of a woman in 22 years.
Bartfield, 52, wore a pink nightgown and blue slippers to the Central Prison execution chamber, where she was given an injection of sodium hypophosphate to sleep and a muscle relaxant that stopped her heart and breathing.
She told a friend late yesterday night that when she entered North Carolina's death chamber, "It's my gateway to heaven."
Hours before she died, the private nurse, who went to church three times a week, offered her eyes, kidneys and liver for transplants.
"This makes her feel her life has not been lived in vain," said defense attorney James Little, who gave Barfield two red roses at their final meeting.
After she was pronounced dead, state troopers rushed her body to a medical school in Winston-Salem to remove the organs she offered for transplants. She will be buried
tomorrow at her childhood home in Parkton.
Barfield, who called herself Velma, laced her victims' food and drinks with rat poison. She said she just wanted to make her victims sick to hide her drug habit. Her six-year, 12-court fight for her life ended at mid-day yesterday when the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stop the execution or grant a new trial.
Gov. James Hunt had denied her clemency because her boyfriend, mother and two elderly people who hired her as a live-in nurse were "literally tortured to death" with repeated doses of arsenic.
About 300 death penalty opponents held a candlevigil on a grassy hill outside the prison early today and advocates stood quietly 30 feet away.
Barfield's son, Ronnie Burke of Goose Creek, S.C., said he hoped people would remember his mother's "deep faith in God" and that she devoted her prison life to helping other inmates.
Her brother, James Bullard, said,
"She's not afraid. We were more
lifted by her than she was by us. She
knows she has done wrong and knows
she has to pay the price for her
crimes."
By United Press International
CBS gives jury math lesson
NEW YORK — The jury in Gen. William Westmoreland's libel trial against CBS was given an arithmetic lesson yesterday by a CBS lawyer who tried to show how an aide to the general underestimated enemy troop strength in the Vietnam War.
The testimony concluded the third week of testimony in the general's $120 million lobby suit and that the last adjustment was adjourned until Monday.
The lawyer forced a Westmoreland witness to admit information given in a pre-trial deposition on troop counts was misleading.
With Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham — Westmoreland's intelligence chief for estimating troop strength — on the stand, CBS lawyer David Boles has crashed and began doing math problems on 4-foot sheets of paper.
moreland lied about the enemy strength in order to convince President Johnson to commit mce U.S. troops to Vietnam.
TROOP COUNTS ON the eve of the Tent 108 Tel反盗 are crucial in the trial since a CBS documentary charged that West-
CIA analyst and CBS consultant Samuel Adams estimated that about 600,000 enemy troops were massed for the start of the Tet offensive on Jan. 30, 1968, while the Army, commanded by West-moreland, was reporting estimates of 300,000 or fewer.
"Obviously, I gave a bad figure," Graham said.
Tennessee city racial turmoil injures nine
Bv United Press International
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — A dusk-to-dawn curfew was in effect last night after Halloween night racial violence left at least nine people injured, including one severely beaten, officials said.
"People were just wild," said Franklin police officer Barbara Derricks.
a rock. The shooting triggered a series of other violent incidents in the city. 30 miles south of Nashville. He was shot by police and with two minor shotgun wounds.
Authories said that two white youths fired a shotgun and struck four black men after the white youths car window was smashed by
Dirk Pewitt, 18, of Nashville and Darin Brothers, 17, of Franklin, were charged with four counts of attempted murder, police said. Lisa Palmer, 19, of Monticello, and Lisa Rowe, 20, of Columbus, each as accessories. Bond was set at $50,000 each for the males and $10,000 each for the females.
James Taylor, 21, and Johnny Christman, 21, were treated and released at Williamson County Hospital.
The wounded blacks, Willis Harrison Jr., 16, Philip Scruggs, 22.
Also treated and released were two white teen-agers, Timothy Galvin and Richard Tidwell, who were shotgun fire in separate incidents.
Picea said the violence started at about 11 p.m. when a rock was hurled through the window of the car in which Pewitt and Brothers were held, then allegedly then opened fire on a group of blacks standing in front of a cafe.
White House OKs increase in food aid
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The White House yesterday approved $45.1 million in emergency food aid to three African countries and was encouraged by talks with an official of Marxist Ethiopia on speeding relief to 6 million people facing starvation.
Peter McPherson, director of the Agency for International Development, last month criticized Ethiopia for spending millions of dollars celebrating the anniversary of its revolution while American food rotted on port docks for lack of air and ground transportation.
"We think in the last weeks since the celebration that the Ethiopian government is focusing more substantially on this problem," McPherson said.
The additional food aid announced by the White House was 120,000 metric tons valued at $2.5 million for Kenya; 73,000 metric tons worth $12.7 million for Mozambique; and 15,600 metric tons worth $6.9 million for Uganda.
Speakes said that the administration was considering aid to Niger and Chad.
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