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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]
Frank's execution was the first in Virginia and the first botched execution after 1976. It took two 55-second jolts of electricity to kill him. Witnesses also reported seeing fire emitting from the electrode attached to Coppola's leg. Jimmy Lee Gray (1983) – Gas chamber. Gray's execution was the first in Mississippi after 1976. He repeatedly ...
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 .
May 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The family of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania — a Black 16-year-old sent to the electric chair in 1931 and ...
The Idaho prison system used to hang death row prisoners, having done so 12 times since achieving statehood in 1890, most recently in 1957. Three men were executed by lethal injection from 1994 to ...
October 11, 2023 at 12:12 PM. Jedidiah Murphy had served time for over two decades before he was executed on Tuesday (AP) A death row inmate in Texas was executed hours after an order that delayed ...
New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007. [1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. [2]
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.