<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Capital punishment">Capital punishment</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Barfield" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Velma Barfield">Velma Barfield</a> becomes the first woman executed in the United States since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962" id="mwAQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1962">1962</a>.<sup about="#mwt165" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-31"}}' id="cite_ref-31" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_2#cite_note-31" id="mwAQk" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 31;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQo">[31]</span></a></sup>
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