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Brandon Teena. 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.
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 September 26, 2024, a total of 33 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 12 pending motions to set an execution date across five states. [ 3 ]
A total of seventeen people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2020, sixteen by lethal injection and one by electrocution. [1] The federal government of the United States executed ten people in 2020, ending a hiatus on federal executions which had lasted for over 17 years. State executions dropped significantly in 2020 compared to ...
A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his ...
Norman Gene Macdonald[ i ] (October 17, 1959 [ ii ] – September 14, 2021) was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] He appeared in many films and was a regular guest on late-night talk ...
September 18, 2024 at 2:47 PM. In South Carolina, which on Friday will execute its first inmate since 2011, 43 convicted murderers have been executed by the state since the death penalty was ...
John David Arnold Jr., 43, executed March 6, 1998, strangled Betty Gardner with a garden hose in Beaufort County in 1978. Arnold, who was white, carved KKK into the body of Gardner who was black ...