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Hate crime murder victim. 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 ...
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]
Summary of scheduled executions. As of May 30, 2024, a total of 36 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in five U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 11 pending motions to set an execution date across four states. [3]
Last execution date Name Crime Method United States Federal Government: 16 January 2021: Dustin John Higgs: aggravated murder: lethal injection United States military: 13 April 1961: John A. Bennett: child rape and attempted murder: hanging Alabama: 30 May 2024: Jamie Ray Mills aggravated murder: lethal injection Alaska: Never used American Samoa
February 2, 2024 – John Walter Lay, a 52-year-old gay man was shot while was walking his dog in West Dog Park in Tampa, Florida. [343] February 7, 2024 – Nex Benedict , a 16-year-old non-binary student was beaten by three younger girls in the girls' restroom at Owasso High School , leading to their death.
The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6, were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.
Executions 1982–89. The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty).Thus, Charles Brooks Jr. was not only the first person executed in the 1980 decade, he was also the first person executed since Texas resumed the death penalty.
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...