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Title: Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes and Execution by Jerry Bledsoe ISBN: 0-451-40755-5 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent true crime book
Comment: Extremely Well-written ans meticulously researched, Death Sentence tells the story of convicted murderer Velma Barfield who was executed by lethal injection in North Carolina in the late 1980's. Reading this book, I knew Velma was guilty, knew that she was a cold-blooded killer who murdered for financial gain and...yet...I found it really, really difficult not to feel some compassion for her as she neared the end of her life on death row. This book didn't change my mind about the death penalty but I came away from reading it with the uneasy conviction that Velma Barfield was sincerely remorseful about her crimes (as well she should) and was a changed woman.I don't think her death row religous awakening was phony. I could be wrong.I found it easy to intensely dislike the early Velma but not the elderly Velma. Anyway, unlike so many true crime books, Death Sentence makes you think about much larger issues.
Rating: 5
Summary: I support the death penalty more than ever
Comment: I'm sorry, but I did not see Velma Barfield as a "sympathetic" character. 99% of us have had less than perfect childhoods, but we don't use prescription drugs to hide from the world or poison people we perceive as being in our way.
I don't care how "redeemed" a killer on death row becomes. It doesn't bring back the people they murdered. And I think it's ridiculous how convicted murderers can delay their punishment for years with appeals and stays, things that their victims never got.
No, the book did not make me "re-think" my pro-death penalty stance. If you play, you must pay,,,whether you're Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy...or a grandmother from North Carolina.
Rating: 5
Summary: ". . .It Hardly Behooves Us To Talk About The Rest Of Us!"
Comment: I have this little sign that reads:
"There's so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves us to talk about the rest of us."
Once upon a time not so long ago, there was a time when a slim and healthy, young man who had grown up with both poverty and big dreams was just starting out in the entertainment business and causing the girls to scream and swoon.
About that same time, a young woman who had come from an abusive home was putting her heart into building a happy home for her husband and two small children.
As the years passed, the young entertainer became more and more popular--and so did the homemaker.I knew the story of Velma Barfield well, so I knew how the story was going to end--yet, the writer had a way of making me live each step with Velma and her family, just as if I didn't know the ending.
A friend went to see Titanic, and he told me that the movie was done so well that he never gave up hope that both Jack and Rose would survive, even though he knew that Jack wouldn't.
This is the way I felt while reading this book.
When a sympathetic character such as Velma Barfield ends up on death row, it makes a lot of people rethink their views on capital punishment, because it brings it so close to home.
The "bad" people aren't some sort of cardboard characters anymore. They're your sons, daughters, Mommies, Daddies, and grandparents. And that's when we come to realize, through the masterful telling of their stories through books such as this one, that there really ARE no totally "bad" people, placing value on the lives of ALL people involved!
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Title: Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex, and Murder by Jerry Bledsoe ISBN: 0451406095 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder by Jerry Bledsoe ISBN: 0451402103 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Blood Games: A True Account of Family Murder by Jerry Bledsoe ISBN: 0451403444 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED by Ann Rule ISBN: 067169071X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: No, Daddy, Don'T!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence ISBN: 0786015543 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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