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  2. Lana Tisdel - Wikipedia

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    May 28, 1975 (age 49) 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 ...

  3. Brandon Teena - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of people executed in New York - Wikipedia

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    This list of people executed in New York gives the names of some of the people executed in New York, both before and after statehood in the United States (including as New Amsterdam), as well as the person's date of execution, method of execution, and the name of the Governor of New York at the date of execution. 1963 marked the last execution ...

  5. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    John Lotter: Murdered 19-year-old Phillip DeVine, 24-year-old Lisa Lambert and 21-year-old Brandon Teena. 28 years, 216 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.

  6. Tom Howard (photographer) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas James Howard Jr. (September 11, 1894 – October 8, 1961) [2] was an American photographer who worked at the Washington bureau of P. & A. Photographs during the 1920s. His photograph of the execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, on January 12, 1928, has been called "the most famous tabloid photo of the decade".

  7. Capital punishment in New York - Wikipedia

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    Statistics. From 1890 to 1963, 695 people were executed in New York. The first was William Kemmler on August 6, 1890, and the last was Eddie Lee Mays on August 15, 1963. Kemmler was the first person in the world known to be executed in an electric chair.

  8. Boys Don't Cry (1999 film) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    The famous English pirate was shot five times and slashed ~20 times with swords by Robert Maynard and his men. He was still alive, but died a day later on the 22nd. [89] Sarah Grosvenor: 14 September 1742: The 19-year-old woman was getting an abortion from Dr. John Hallowell. However, on the 14th, she died from the complications of the surgery.