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It was hard to believe that the unassuming, faith-filled mother and grandma who was sharing her story with me could be the same one who had killed so many people.
Yet, the people were dead and buried--and, long before I read this book, so was Velma Barfield.
But was it the arsenic-giving woman that was legally-murdered by the state of North Carolina? Or had they killed a new creation who could have lived much longer and could have continued to help and support others.
The one who committed the crimes was a woman with a lot of emotional scars that had surfaced after she had been given both an unnecessary hysterectomy and pain-killers to help her through her recovery from being hit by a hit-and-run driver.
The one who was killed several years later had come out of her drugged haze and had rededicated her life to Jesus--and knowing Him in a more mature and real way than she ever had in her entire life!
I oppose capital punishment. Always have and always will. Don't tell me that I'd feel differently if somebody I knew and loved was murdered, because it has already happened--several times, with one of those times being a man I used to date!
We need to be better than the criminal in how we treat others--and we need to also realize that people CAN change, even if they can only make a difference from a prison cell for the rest of their lives. Life has value!
As I read this book, I thought how wonderful it would be if Velma Barfield were still reaching out and encouraging people from her prison cell, and I wonder how her kids and grandkids are doing now...
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