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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 .
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia , the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [1]
Shot four people execution-style in 1997. 16 years, 329 days Serrano is the oldest death row inmate in Florida. Mark Sievers: Orchestrated the murder of his wife, 46-year-old Teresa Sievers. 4 years, 138 days Donald James Smith: Kidnapped, raped, and murdered 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle. 6 years, 18 days George Trepal
This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of people executed in California. Categories: Deaths by execution in the United States by state. Prisoners sentenced to death by California. Prisoners who died in California detention. Capital punishment in California.
Pages in category "People executed by California by gas chamber" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Up until 1967, 194 people were executed by lethal gas, including four women. The last person was Aaron Mitchell on April 12, 1967. In previous eras the California Institution for Women housed the death row for women. 1972 abolition of capital punishment. On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v.
His attacker, John Lotter, was sentenced to death. The events leading to Teena's death were depicted in the movie Boys Don't Cry. November 30, 1993 - Nicholas West, 23, was kidnapped and murdered in Tyler, TX by three men. They robbed him, beat him and drove him to a remote Smith County location where they shot him, multiple times.