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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]
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 .
Terry Melvin Sims was the first person executed by lethal injection in the state of Florida. Mark James Asay was the first person executed by lethal injection using the drug etomidate. Robert Lee Massie was California's longest-serving death row inmate prior to his execution in 2001. Donald Dillbeck was Florida's 100th execution since the ...
May 20, 2024 at 12:53 PM. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and ...
The Idaho prison system used to hang death row prisoners, having done so 12 times since achieving statehood in 1890, most recently in 1957. Three men were executed by lethal injection from 1994 to ...
February 28, 2024 at 7:22 PM. KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where ...
Gordon Cummins (1942) known as "the Blackout Ripper". Sarah Dazley (1843) known as "the Potton Poisoner". Williamina "Minnie" Dean (1895) only woman executed in New Zealand. Westley Allan Dodd (1993) first post- Gregg execution in Washington. Martin Dumollard (1862) known as "the Monster of Montluel".
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.