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Category Archives: torture
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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An Unseemly Spectacle
Alva Campbell is next in line to be executed by the State of Ohio.* For the last month of his life, Campbell will have been intensely monitored: two corrections officers watch him round the clock to ensure there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Alva Campbell, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, Ohio, torture, USA
Tagged Alva Campbell, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death watch, forensic psychologist, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, October 2017, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, sociologist, torture, USA
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
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
A Shameful List of Scheduled Barbarity
Ohio now has execution dates for 24 people, which is more than any other state. The dates stretch ahead far into 2019, a shameful list of scheduled barbarity. In setting execution dates long in advance Ohio piles on the torture, forcing inmates to … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, murder victims' families, official misconduct, Ohio, torture, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged AEDPA, capital punishment, death penalty, executions, exonerations, Governor Kasich, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, murder victims, murder victims' families, official misconduct, Ohio, Oklahoma City bombing, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, September 2015, Texas, torture, USA, victims, wrongful convictions
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
Ohioans to Stop Executions: Report 2015
Ohioans to Stop Executions (OTSE) has brought out its second annual report about the current state of the death penalty in Ohio. Jeffrey Wogenstahl is mentioned twice in this. The first time is in Justice O’Neill’s comments about the death penalty … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, OTSE, sentencing, torture, USA
Tagged 2015, A Crumbling Institution: Why Ohio Must Fix or End the Death Penalty, April 2015, capital punishment, Constitution, death penalty, death row, death sentences, executions, Hamilton County, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty, Joseph Deters, Julia Bates, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, OTSE, prosecutorial misconduct, prosecutors, sentencing, torture, USA
