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Category Archives: executions
More Good News
A recent Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) analysis makes encouraging reading: death sentencing and executions in the USA are both declining. During the decade that has just ended, average annual US death sentencing was less than half what it was … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death sentences, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, USA
Tagged 2020, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, death sentencing, DPIC, executions, January 2020, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, USA
Guilt, Shame and Mental Torment
Ohio’s Governor DeWine has postponed two more executions because of difficulties obtaining drugs; there are now no executions scheduled in Ohio before March next year. At the Chillicothe Correctional Institution where death row is housed, the relief of the inmates at … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, post-traumatic stress disorder, prison staff, USA
Tagged Allan Ault, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, correctional staff, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, Governor Mike DeWine, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, November 2019, Ohio, post-traumatic stress disorder, prison staff, USA
A Disturbing Ruling
A Sixth Circuit appeals court panel ruled this month that Ohio’s three-drug execution protocol does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. The panel’s decision is at odds with federal magistrate Judge Merz’s conclusion earlier this … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, USA
Tagged cruel and unusual punishment, David Stebbins, death penalty, Doug Berman, Eighth Amendment, execution drugs, Governor Mike DeWine, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Merz, midazolam, October 2019, Ohio, pulmonary edema, Robert Dunham, suffocation, torture, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
The US Supreme Court’s Exceptional Barbarity
While we were still celebrating increased conservative opposition to the death penalty, the US Supreme Court last month shunted the American death penalty into new, shocking levels of brutality. The opinion is described by various legal analysts as “bloodthirsty”, “exceptionally … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Supreme Court of the United States, USA
Tagged Bucklew v. Precythe, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eighth Amendment, executions, Garrett Epps, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Matt Ford, May 2019, Missouri, nitrogen hypoxia, Russell Bucklew, Supreme Court of the United States, torture, US Supreme Court, USA
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
Do they deserve to kill?
Warren Keith Henness is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. He claims innocence of the murder of which he was convicted, but is seeking only to have his death sentence commuted to incarceration, without death. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, Warren Keith Henness
Tagged 2019, Bryan Stevenson, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, forensic evidence, Governor Mike DeWine, ineffective trial counsel, January 2019, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Adult Parole Authority, police misconduct, post conviction lawyers, post-traumatic stress disorder, unreliable witnesses, USA, Warren Keith Henness
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
