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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 .
As of January 1, 2023, there were 2,331 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Hann was sentenced to death for the murder of her two-month-old daughter Montana in 2001, who was beaten to death. Hann was also convicted of murdering her six-week-old son Jason in 1999, who was also beaten to death. 10 years, 2 months and 10 days. In 2019, Hann was moved to a woman's prison and is on death row.
April 5, 2024 at 3:58 AM. Attorneys for a man on death row and more than a dozen impartial advisors are asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider its January ruling denying prisoner Timothy ...
November 8, 2023 at 7:18 PM. Nov. 8—Over 30 years after the Lindhurst High School school shooting, 52-year-old death row inmate Eric Houston is filing another appeal, claiming that a ...
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution. In each case, Elder also provides short ...
March 28, 2024 at 5:58 PM. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge ruled Thursday that a death row inmate is not competent to be executed for his role in the 1999 slayings of a mother and son ...