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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]
Summary of scheduled executions. As of September 20, 2024, a total of 37 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 12 pending motions to set an execution date across five states. [3]
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.
Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 117 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois. Robert Gregory Bowers.
The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below. Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign ...
George Barrett. Hanging. Murder of a federal officer. March 24, 1936. Marion County Jail, Indiana. The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Arthur Gooch. Hanging.
Date of execution 1976–1979 0 0% 1980–1989 2 5% 1990–1999 22 50% 2000–2009 18 41% 2010–2019 1 2% 2020–2029 1 2% Method Lethal injection: 37 84% Electrocution: 7 16% Governor James B. Edwards: 0 0% Richard Riley: 2 5% Carroll A. Campbell Jr. 2 5% David Beasley: 17 39% Jim Hodges: 7 16% Mark Sanford: 14 32% Nikki Haley: 1 2%
Notes. ^ Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Mississippi is the state with the highest amount of executions via gas chamber. ^ The 4 victims were: Glenda Reid, Wesley Lee Reid, Dylan Lee, and Heath Pounds. ^ The 4 victims were: Shunterica Lonnett Jackson, Dominique Devro Jackson, Antonio Terrell Jackson, and Andrew Odutola ...