LINCOLN — A federal judge took under advisement Tuesday a request that death row inmate John Lotter keep his court-appointed attorneys while the status of Nebraska’s death penalty is determined.

John Lotter has exhausted his appeals and if the death penalty is revived would be among the first to be executed. LINCOLN — Legal arguments over Nebraska’s death penalty repeal have quickly emerged ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie “Boys Don’t Cry” say he should be ruled ineligible for execution because he has the intellect of a ...

The man convicted of murdering a transgender victim that inspired the Hollywood movie “Boys Don’t Cry” has joined another death row inmate to challenge Nebraska’s three-judge method, which decides ...

John Lotter's attorney had presented a two-pronged argument to the Supreme Court last year, arguing that a district court judge had ruled improperly in denying the 51-year-old an evidentiary hearing ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man convicted in the murder case that inspired the 1999 movie “Boys Don’t Cry” has joined a fellow death row inmate in challenging Nebraska’s three-judge method for determining ...

Nebraska death row inmate John Lotter has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court's ruling in his case. Whether the country's highest court ultimately will agree to hear arguments in the ...

One of two men convicted in the 1993 murder of Teena Brandon and two others that spawned the movie "Boys Don't Cry" now says he was the only attacker who shot and stabbed them. Marvin Nissen's new ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie “Boys Don”t Cry” say he should be ruled ineligible for execution because he has the intellect of a ...