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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]
Napa State Hospital. / 38.27806°N 122.26694°W / 38.27806; -122.26694. Napa State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Napa, California, founded in 1875. It is located along California State Route 221, the Napa-Vallejo Highway, and is one of California's five state mental hospitals. Napa State Hospital holds civil and forensic mental ...
He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case but rejected his challenge by a vote of 7–2. See Baze v. Rees: Victor Dewayne ...
You seem to be all right to me.”. So uttered the late, great Lux Interior 45 years ago, when his shockabilly band the Cramps played Napa State Hospital’s mental institution on June 13, 1978 ...
Joe Murphy. Updated May 29, 2024 at 12:29 AM. Michael Macor. When “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed while interrupting a car-part theft Saturday in Los Angeles, he ...
In 1859, Juárez donated 48 acres (0.19 km 2) of land to the City of Napa to establish the Tulocay Cemetery. On August 2, 1882, Juarez sold 209 acres (0.85 km 2) of his Rancho Tulucay land to the state of California for $11,506.00 for the purpose of constructing an insane asylum. Napa State Hospital is now located on that site.
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 .
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.