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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 .
Nebraska State Penitentiary. Harold Lamont "Walkin' Wili" Otey (August 1, 1951 – September 2, 1994) was an American criminal convicted of the 1977 rape and murder of Jane McManus, a 26-year-old photography student, in Omaha, Nebraska. [1] [2] Despite recanting his confession and maintaining his innocence for more than 15 years, [3] Otey ...
May 28, 1975 (age 48) Falls City, Nebraska, U.S. Spouse. Josh Bachman. . ( m. 2001) . [1] 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 ...
Oklahoma is set to carry out the state's first execution of 2024 and the 12th since capital punishment resumed in 2021. Death row inmate Michael DeWayne Smith faces execution by lethal injection ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of Nebraska death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore (all times local):
Sidney Gleason. Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004. 17 years, 278 days (first sentence; overturned) 8 years, 133 days (second sentence) After the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, the United States Supreme Court reinstated it on January 20, 2016. James Kraig Kahler.
Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., was wheeled into the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution on a gurney at 10 a.m.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Nebraska. In 2015, the state legislature voted to repeal the death penalty, overriding governor Pete Ricketts ' veto. However, a petition drive secured enough signatures to suspend the repeal until a public vote. In the November 2016 general election, voters rejected the repeal measure ...