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Category Archives: executions
The Pursuit of Torture
On Wednesday this week, Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s fellow inmate, Alva Campbell, is set to die. As a child, Alva Campbell was forced by his father to play games of torture. One was the electrical current game: all the children held hands … Continue reading
Posted in Alva Campbell, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, torture, USA
Tagged Alva Campbell, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, emotional instability, executions, firing squad, frailty, illness, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injections, midazolam, November 2017, Ohio, pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride, torture, USA
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More Victims and More Grieving Families
September 13, 2017 was to have been Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s day of execution. Following a rescheduling, the date has been reallocated to Gary Otte.[i] Otte differs from Jeff in having no claim of innocence. Nonetheless, Otte’s case highlights many concerns about … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Gary Otte, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, Ohio, USA
Tagged Amnesty International, capital punishment, clemency, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Gary Otte, Governor Kasich, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Mariette Jaeger-Lane, mitigating factors, Ohio, Ohio Parole Board, Oklahoma City bombing, September 2017, Tim McVeigh, USA, victims
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Ronald Phillips: Breakdown of Criminal Justice
A ruling by a federal court makes it more likely that executions will resume in Ohio on July 26, despite warnings that the state’s drug protocol could cause immense pain. The first person due to face this pain is Ronald Phillips.[i] Phillips … Continue reading
Posted in attorneys, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, Ohio, prison staff, Ronald Phillips, USA
Tagged American Civil Liberties Union, attorneys, childhood abuse, criminal justice, death row inmates, execution drugs, executions, Governor Kasich, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2017, jurors, mitigating factors, Ohio, personality disorder, prison staff, psychologists, Ronald Phillips, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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The USA: A Shameful Record
The USA has a poor reputation when it comes to executions. A report* by Amnesty International found the following: -Most UN member states were execution-free last year;** but the USA continued to execute. -The USA was the only one of … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, injustice, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, revenge, USA
Tagged Amnesty International, Arkansas, death sentences, DNA testing, executions, G8, injustice, intellectual disabilities, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ledell Lee, lethal injection chemicals, lethal injections, May 2017, Ohio, Organization of American States, revenge, UN, US Supreme Court, USA
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Executions Halted
For now, Ohio cannot perform its scheduled executions: Judge Merz, a federal magistrate judge, has ruled against its proposed lethal injection protocol. The ruling has been appealed by the state. In his federal court testimony Gary Mohr, Director of the Ohio … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eighth Amendment, executions, February 2017, Gary Mohr, Glossip v. Gross, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Merz, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Ohio Execution Protocol Litigation, paralytic agent, potassium chloride, US Supreme Court, USA
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Burning at the Stake
Ohio has introduced a lethal injection protocol as cruel and unusual as “burning at the stake, crucifixion, and breaking on the wheel” (examples of punishments which the US constitution forbids as cruel and unusual). The state is emboldened by a … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, execution drugs, executions, Glossip v. Gross, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, midazolam
Tagged 2017, anesthetic, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Glossip v. Gross, January 2017, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Justice Sotomayor, lethal injections, lethal-injection drugs, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, Oklahoma, torture, USA
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Tell Governor Kasich to stay executions.
Ohio has only paid lip service to the 56 recommendations of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty. A recent report found: “The death penalty in Ohio remains plagued by the very same … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged A Relic of the Past: Ohio’s Dwindling Death Penalty, capital punishment, criminal justice system, death penalty, executions, Governor Kasich, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty, October 2016, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, pending executions, USA
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Risk of Intolerable Pain and Suffering
For death penalty opponents, whose stance is no longer opposed by the majority of the US population, today is a very sad day: the Ohio Attorney General’s office has announced that it wishes executions to resume in January. What is more, the new lethal … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, midazolam, Ohio, USA
Tagged botched executions, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Dennis McGuire, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injections, midazolam, October 2016, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, potassium chloride, rocuronium bromide, US Supreme Court, USA
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Nitrogen Asphyxiation: “Are we really going to use it for people?”
John Murphy, executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, supports the flawed criminal justice system that produced Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s death sentence. Murphy is unconcerned that a recent OTSE report about the Ohio death penalty concludes, “the only interest served is … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, nitrogen asphyxiation, Ohio, prodecutorial misconduct, USA
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Dr. Jonathan Groner, professor of clinical surgery at Ohio State University College of Medicine, executions, Hamilton County, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, John Murphy, John Murphy executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, nitrogen asphyxiation, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, September 2016, USA, wrongful convictions
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A Nightmarish Possibility
When Judge O’Neill dissented from the order that set an execution date for Jeffrey Wogenstahl, he cited the botched attempt at executing Romell Broom as an example of why lethal injections are unconstitutional. Now a court ruling brings Broom closer to … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Francis v. Resweber,, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Romell Broom, State v. Broom, torture, USA, Willie Francis
Tagged African Americans, April 2016, Austin Sarat, capital punishment, death penalty, death row, executions, Francis v. Resweber,, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge French, Judge O'Neill, Louisiana, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, torture, USA, Willie Francis, wrongful convictions
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Justice for Jeffrey Wogenstahl 