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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 was a transgender man who was raped and killed by John Lotter and Tom Nissen in 1993 in Nebraska. His life and death inspired the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry, and led to increased awareness of hate crime laws.
Find out the number, demographics, and crimes of the 2,213 death row inmates in the U.S. as of July 1, 2024. See the names, crimes, and time on death row of the 40 federal death row inmates, including the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter and the Charleston church shooter.
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021. [1] [2]
Learn about the elite and influential families in colonial Virginia, who descended from European colonists and married within their social class. Find out their history, heritage, and connections to Pocahontas, the American Revolution, and the Civil War.
Virginia abolished the death penalty in 2021, becoming the 23rd state and the first southern state to do so. The last execution in the state was in 2017, and the state had executed more than 1,300 people since 1608.
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were a white couple who were kidnapped, raped, tortured, and killed by five black people in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2007. The case sparked controversy over media coverage and racial bias, and led to new laws and memorials in their honor.