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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
Brandon Teena [note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2] [3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry .
The indictment for John Russell Howard includes that he wanted to, "get rid of the lesbians [and] gays." May 11, 2021 – The body of Poe Black, also known as Legion and Oliver Jackson, a 21-year-old mixed indigenous transgender non-binary person, was found in the Coachella Canal in Slab City, an unincorporated area of Niland, California. He ...
Martinsville Seven. The Martinsville Seven were a group of seven African-American men from Martinsville, Virginia, who were all executed in 1951 by the state of Virginia after being convicted of raping a white woman. At the time of their arrest, all but one were between the ages of 18 and 23.
John Lotter: Murdered 19-year-old Phillip DeVine, 24-year-old Lisa Lambert and 21-year-old Brandon Teena. 28 years, 107 days Days prior, Teena had reported to police that Lotter and his accomplice Tom Nissen had beat and raped him upon discovering he was transgender. Nissen was sentenced to life. Raymond Mata Jr.
Adams' photo of the event, titled Saigon Execution, became one of the most famous and influential images of the war, winning him the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. The photo also came to haunt Adams: "I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed, and I was getting paid for it. I was a hero."
The 52-year-old Virginia man died by lethal injection at 11:34 p.m. He is the second person to be executed by the government this week and the 12th since July, when the Trump administration ...
The defense's strategy backfired. Kaufman, who stated his concerns about executing the Rosenbergs on the Sabbath, rescheduled the execution for 8 p.m.—before sunset and the Sabbath—the regular time for executions at Sing Sing. On June 19, 1953, Julius died from the first electric shock. Ethel's execution did not go smoothly.