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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.
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]
This web page provides a comprehensive list of people on death row in the U.S. by state and federal jurisdiction, as of July 1, 2024. It also includes demographic and statistical data on the death row population, such as ethnicity, gender, education, mental illness, and time on death row.
John Joubert was an American serial killer executed in Nebraska in 1996. He confessed to murdering three boys in Maine and Nebraska in 1982-1983, after being arrested for a different crime.
Virginia Christian was a black maid who killed her employer Ida Belote in 1912 and became the first female executed in Virginia in the 20th century. She was 17 years old and the last female executed by electric chair in Virginia until 2010.
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John Proctor was a landowner and tavern keeper in Massachusetts Bay Colony who was executed for witchcraft in 1692. He was married three times and had 18 children, and was posthumously exonerated in 2001.
The Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center, also known as the Barrett Learning Center and originally as the Virginia Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls and then the Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls, was a residential industrial school and later a juvenile correctional facility operated by the state of Virginia near Mechanicsville, Virginia.