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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 .
He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees: Victor Dewayne ...
The California State Lottery began in October 1985 after voters authorized it in Proposition 37, the California State Lottery Act of 1984. [1] It offers a range of games including number draws, scratchcards and a mock horse race. The earnings provide supplementary funding for public education.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia , the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [1]
She moved to the Sacramento, California region in 1987 for a ten month fellowship in archival administration, [3] which turned into a 31 year career at the California State Archives. She married Robert Lenoil in 2007, [4] and had boy/girl twins in 2010. Nancy and Robert are active in the Sacramento Jewish community; she served ten years on the ...
United States. State (s) California. Date apprehended. April 22, 1987. Imprisoned at. San Quentin State Prison. Morris Solomon Jr. (born March 15, 1944 [1] ), known as The Sacramento Slayer, is an American convicted serial killer on death row in San Quentin, California for the murders of six women. [2]
In the U.S. state of California, capital punishment is not allowed to be carried out as of March 2019, because executions were halted by an official moratorium ordered by Governor Gavin Newsom. [1] Before the moratorium, executions had been frozen by a federal court order since 2006, and the litigation resulting in the court order has been on ...