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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) 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).
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 .
Martinsville Seven. The Martinsville Seven were a group of seven African-American men from Martinsville, Virginia, who were all executed in 1951 by the state of Virginia after being convicted of raping a white woman. At the time of their arrest, all but one were between the ages of 18 and 23.
Virginia: 6 July 2017: William Charles Morva: aggravated murder: lethal injection Washington: 10 September 2010: Cal Coburn Brown: aggravated murder: lethal injection Washington, D.C. 26 April 1957: Robert E. Carter murder: electric chair West Virginia: 3 April 1959: Elmer Bruner: aggravated murder: electric chair Wisconsin: 21 August 1851 ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Virginia prosecutor said Thursday that he will pursue the case against a former assistant principal indicted on a felony child neglect charge at the elementary school where ...
His attacker, John Lotter, was sentenced to death. The events leading to Teena's death were depicted in the movie Boys Don't Cry. November 30, 1993 - Nicholas West, 23, was kidnapped and murdered in Tyler, TX by three men. They robbed him, beat him and drove him to a remote Smith County location where they shot him, multiple times.
John Lotter: Murdered 19-year-old Phillip DeVine, 24-year-old Lisa Lambert and 21-year-old Brandon Teena. 28 years, 64 days Days prior, Teena had reported to police that Lotter and his accomplice Tom Nissen had beat and raped him upon discovering he was transgender. Nissen was sentenced to life. Raymond Mata Jr.
List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...