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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 .
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]
Capital punishment was abolished via the legislative process on May 2, 2013, in the U.S. state of Maryland. [1] The Metropolitan Transition Center still houses Maryland's now defunct execution chamber. The death penalty had been in use in the state or, more precisely, its predecessor colony since June 20, 1638, when two men were hanged for ...
1994–2005: 5 executions. Between the United States Supreme Court's Gregg v. Georgia decision upholding the use of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, and Maryland's abolition of the death penalty in 2013, a total of five people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Maryland. All were executed by lethal injection . No.
Constitution. Declaration of the Association of the Freemen of Maryland. The Annapolis Convention was an Assembly of the Counties of Maryland that functioned as the colony's provincial government from 1774 to 1776 during the early days leading up to the American Revolution. After 1775, it was officially named the Assembly of Freemen .
Date of execution Location of crime Method Victim(s) President 1 Bernard John O'Brien: White 34 M July 31, 1954 Bad Aibling, Bavaria, West Germany: Hanging: Dorothy Lucia O'Brien Dwight D. Eisenhower: 2 Chastine Beverly: Black 25 M March 1, 1955 Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, United States: Harry Langly 3 Louis M. Suttles: Black 26 M 4 James L ...
John Allen Muhammad (born John Allen Williams; December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was an American convicted spree killer who, along with his partner and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo (then aged 17), carried out the D.C. sniper attacks of October 2002, killing seventeen people. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on ...
Sawed off .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle. Date apprehended. September 4, 1990. John Frederick Thanos (March 28, 1949 – May 17, 1994) [1] was an American spree killer who was convicted in 1992 of the murders of three teenagers: Gregory Taylor, Billy Winebrenner, and Melody Pistorio. He was executed for the murders in 1994, becoming the first ...