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Category Archives: death row
Thirty Long Years
Today, November 24, 2021, marks thirty long years since the very sad time when 10 year-old Amber Garrett was reported missing from her home. As well as being saddened to hear that a child he knew had been murdered, Jeffrey … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, Ohio, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged Amber Garrett, Brian Noel, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, November 2021, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, police misconduct, USA, witnesses, wrongful convictions
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Covid-19 on Death Row
Covid-19 has come to Ohio’s death row: 23 death row inmates have tested positive for the virus. None of the cases is in the block where Jeffrey Wogenstahl is incarcerated. The inmates who have contracted the virus are in isolation. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged August 2020, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, coronavirus, Covid-19, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
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Excessive and Inhuman
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has been on death row for an astonishing 27 years. He’s not alone in suffering such a long period of incarceration: of the 138 inmates on Ohio’s death row, 71 have been imprisoned for 20 years or more; … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, incarceration, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged American Declaration of Human Rights, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, death row, DPIC, human rights abuse, IACHR, incarceration, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2020, Ohio, protracted incarceration, USA
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
There is very good news from Ohio – executions there have been halted by the new governor, Governor Mike DeWine! Initially Governor DeWine postponed the scheduled execution of Warren Keith Henness; later he stopped other scheduled executions indefinitely. The governor … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged analgesic, capital punishment, criminal justice, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, death row, Derrick Jamison, execution protocol, executions, February 2019, Governor Mike DeWine, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, midazolam, Ohio, pulmonary edema, USA, Warren Keith Henness
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Shadow of Execution Date Lifted
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has been granted an indefinite stay of execution by the Ohio Supreme Court (see Supreme Court of Ohio Case Announcements October 24, 2018): 1995-0042. State v. Wogenstahl. Hamilton App. No. C-930222. On appellant’s motion to reopen direct appeal. Motion … Continue reading
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Tagged Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death row, FBI hair testimony, hair analysis, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, jurors, jury, October 2018, official misconduct, Ohio, Ohio Southern District Court, Ohio Supreme Court, police file, stay of execution, suppressed evidence, Supreme Court of Ohio, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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A Dirty Secret
It is a “dirty secret”, known by few, that the American death penalty system is “specifically engineered to ensure that those who are convicted stay convicted, guilty or not.”[i] This is how it works. Death sentences routinely result from poor defense … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, habeas corpus petition, injustice, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, torture, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged capital punishment, Catch-22, clear and convincing evidence, death penalty, death row, defense lawyers, federal court, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, new evidence, October 2017, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, reasonable diligence, Richard North Patterson, torture, USA, wrongful conviction
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Move to Toledo Abandoned
The men on death row in Ohio will no longer need to worry about relocating to a prison in Toledo: the proposed move has been abandoned ten months after it was announced. Jeffrey Wogenstahl and the other death row inmates at … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prisoners, prisons, September 2017, stress, Toledo, Toledo Correctional Institution, USA
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Oral Argument Information
The Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case about jurisdiction on Tuesday morning next week (Tuesday, April 4, 2017). The session will be held at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus. The … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, Ohio, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, April 2017, capital punishment, Columbus, criminal justice, death penalty, Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney, Harrison, Indiana, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joseph Deters, Justice Patrick DeWine, Justice Patrick Fischer, Justice William O'Neill, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, oral argument, Supreme Court of Ohio, Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center, USA, West Harrison
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Another Critical Report
It is painful to read the 2015 Forensic Pathology report* about Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case, as it focuses on the brutal murder of a child, and the disposal of her body. The report, submitted by Carl Schmidt in February 2015, is … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death row, forensic pathology, injustice, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged Amber Garrett, capital punishment, Carl Schmidt, criminal justice, death penalty, December 2016, forensic pathology, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, police investigations, Supreme Court of Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
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Move to Toledo: “It’s just another prison.”
Jeffrey Wogenstahl, and the other death row inmates at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, Ohio, were told yesterday that they will be moved in the near future. Their destination is Toledo Correctional Institution, which is about 4 miles from Ohio’s northern border with … Continue reading
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