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Brandon Teena was a transgender man who was raped and killed by John Lotter and Tom Nissen in 1993 in Nebraska. His life and death inspired the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry, and led to increased awareness of hate crime laws.
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]
This web page provides a comprehensive list of people on death row in the U.S. by state and federal jurisdiction, as of July 1, 2024. It also includes demographic and statistical data on the death row population, such as ethnicity, gender, education, mental illness, and time on death row.
This web page shows the names, ages, genders, ethnicities, states, methods, and dates of execution of 39 people who are scheduled to be executed in the United States from 2024 to 2027. It also includes the profiles of the victims and the offenders, and the pending motions for each case.
Boys Don't Cry is a biographical film about Brandon Teena, a trans man who was murdered in Nebraska in 1993. Hilary Swank won an Oscar for her portrayal of Brandon, who falls in love with Lana Tisdel, played by Chloë Sevigny.
John Edwards was a Florida State University student who was killed by two men during a camping trip in 1994. The killers, Loran Kenstley Cole and William Christopher Paul, were arrested, convicted and sentenced to death and life imprisonment respectively.
This web page shows the last execution date, name, crime, and method for each country or entity that has capital punishment. It also indicates the legal status of the death penalty in each jurisdiction with a colour-coded map and chart.
An estimated 250,000 to 375,000 attended San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade; newspapers claimed the higher numbers were due to John Briggs. [117] Organizers asked participants to carry signs indicating their hometowns for the cameras, to show how far people came to live in the Castro District.