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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]
It has been estimated that over 10% of death row inmates have a mental illness. Comparatively, it is estimated that 4.2% of American adults have a serious mental illness. Time on death row. Median time, in years, a death row prisoner has been awaiting execution: 7
John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013.
Nashville Tennessean. Retrieved December 7, 2019. Hall, previously known as Leroy Hall Jr., was sentenced to death in 1992 for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend Traci Crozier in Chattanooga. Hall threw a burning 2-gallon jug of gas at her while she was sitting in her car. ^ Timms, Mariah (November 16, 2019).
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...
7 January 2022 [39] Babu Emmanuel Lokiri. triple murder. hanging. Sudan. 23 October 2023 [40] Geedow Mohamed Fidle and Ismail Abdullahi Abdirahman. murder. public firearm.
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]