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  2. Lana Tisdel - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Brandon Teena - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Martinsville Seven - Wikipedia

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    Execution. All of the appeals by the NAACP failed. The seven were executed at the Virginia State Penitentiary in early February 1951. The first four were executed at 15-minute intervals on February 2. The remaining three were executed on February 5, 1951. It is the largest execution for rape charges in the United States.

  5. Dutch Schultz - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey. Allegiance. New York City's Five Families. Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901 – October 24, 1935) was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Schultz made his fortune in organized crime -related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket.

  6. Luanda Trial - Wikipedia

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    Luanda Trial. The Luanda Trial was a trial held in Luanda, Angola, in June 1976 during the Angolan Civil War. Thirteen Western mercenaries were sentenced to either long prison terms or execution by firing squad .

  7. Murder of John Lennon - Wikipedia

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    Murder of John Lennon. On the evening of 8 December 1980, the English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and fatally wounded in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. The killer, Mark David Chapman, was an American Beatles fan who was jealous and enraged by Lennon's lifestyle, alongside his 1966 comment ...

  8. Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks - Wikipedia

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    The case was the subject of an episode of HLN's How it Really Happened, "The Yacht Murder Mystery: Unspeakable Cruelty" (season 7, episode 5). The case was focused on in The Real Murders of Orange County episode "Love Lost At Sea," which aired on Oxygen 11/15/2020. Further reading. Caitlin Rother (2011). Dead Reckoning. Kensington. ISBN ...

  9. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    7 January 2022 [39] Babu Emmanuel Lokiri. triple murder. hanging. Sudan. 23 October 2023 [40] Geedow Mohamed Fidle and Ismail Abdullahi Abdirahman. murder. public firearm.