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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 .
Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Hall, previously known as Leroy Hall Jr., was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend Traci Crozier in Chattanooga. Hall threw a burning 2-gallon jug of gas at her while she was sitting in her car. ^ Timms, Mariah (November 16, 2019).
Median time, in years, a death row prisoner has been awaiting execution: 7; Average time, in years, between imposition of a death sentence and execution: 12. For 2020: 22 years on average between offense and execution. Later found innocent or exonerated. 1.6% of death row prisoners since 1972 have been formally exonerated and released.
Last execution date Name Crime Method United States Federal Government: 16 January 2021: Dustin John Higgs: aggravated murder: lethal injection United States military: 13 April 1961: John A. Bennett: child rape and attempted murder: hanging Alabama: 30 May 2024: Jamie Ray Mills aggravated murder: lethal injection Alaska: Never used American Samoa
Executions 2020–present. The number in the "#" column indicates the nth person executed since 1982 (when Texas resumed the death penalty).As an example, John Steven Gardner (the first person executed in Texas during the 2020 decade) was the 568th person executed since resumption of the death penalty.
List of people executed in Florida. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Florida since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. The total amounts to 105 people. Of the 105 people executed, 44 have been executed by electrocution and 61 have been executed by lethal injection.
John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013.