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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.
In addition, the center lists three current death row inmates facing execution despite strong claims of innocence: Richard Glossip, who was convicted in Oklahoma of a murder-for-hire of a motel owner; Toforest Johnson, who is set to die in Alabama for the murder of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy; and Robert Robertson, who was convicted in Texas ...
This web page lists the 17 people executed in the US in 2020, by the federal government or state governments. It also notes the COVID-19-related problems with scheduling executions and provides references and links to related topics.
John Loder (1898-1988) was a British film actor who worked in Germany, Britain and Hollywood. He was married to Hedy Lamarr from 1943 to 1947.
A French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry who commanded French forces in India during the Seven Years' War. He was beheaded in 1766 for his alleged failures in India, despite his Jacobite connections and his role in the Battle of Fontenoy.
Kenneth Eugene Smith was the first person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia in the world, on January 25, 2024. He was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett in Alabama and lost his final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.