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Category Archives: lethal-injection drugs
2020 US Election
The death penalty is not mentioned in the President Trump’s vague bullet points that replace the usual platform for the Republican Party in an election year. However, the restoration of federal executions this year confirms the party’s support for capital … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Democratic Party, Democratic Party,, election, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Republican Party, USA, victims
Tagged Covid-19, defense attorneys, Democratic Party, election, federal executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, murder victims' families, Native Americans, October 2020, Ohio, Republican Party, 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 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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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
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
Hopeful Signs
Things are relatively quiet for Jeffrey Wogenstahl on Ohio’s death row at the moment. This should be celebrated. It was not long ago that Ohio was second only to Texas in carrying out executions; but during the two years of 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death sentences, execution drugs, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged capital punishment, compounding pharmacies, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, death sentences, Doug Bergman, executions, FDA, January 2016, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Nickie Antonio, Niraj Antani, Ohio, Ohio General Assembly, prosecutorial misconduct, sodium thiopental, Texas, USA, wrongful convictions
Ohio Pursues Unregulated Drug Markets
Last month we reported that Ohio had been granted a licence by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) allowing it to import sodium thiopental (one of the two drugs permitted for executions in Ohio). We noted, however, that a different … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, capital punishment, death penalty, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, USA
Tagged abuse, August 2015, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death penalty, Drug Enforcement Administration, executions, Food and Drug Administration, human rights abuses, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injections, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, sodium thiopental, torture, unapproved drugs, USA
Lack of Execution Drugs
Ohio’s current execution policy calls for single doses of either sodium thiopental or pentobarbital, both powerful sedatives. But drugs for lethal injections are hard to come by. The EU banned the export of these drugs for use in executions. Ohio responded by passing … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, torture, USA
Tagged capital punishment, compounding pharmacies, death penalty, death row, Drug Enforcement Agency, execution drugs, executions, Food and Drug Administration, Gary Mohr, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2015, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation, sodium thiopental, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, torture, USA, wrongful convictions
