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Category Archives: USA
Jurisdiction Ruling: a Reassuring Footnote
A Sixth Circuit court has denied[i] Jeffrey Wogenstahl the opportunity to make a separate appeal to establish whether Ohio had jurisdiction to try him. Jeff wanted to appeal an Ohio Supreme Court’s ruling[ii] from 2017. In that ruling the majority … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, conclusive presumption, criminal justice, death penalty, habeas petition, Indiana, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2020, jurisdiction, Justice O'Connor, miscarriages of justice, new judgment, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, subject-matter jurisdiction, USA, wrongful convictions
Will Ohio’s Death Penalty End?
Four times in the last decade Ohio’s Democrat Senator Nickie Antonio has sponsored a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state, without success. This year feels different. With executions halted because lethal injection drugs are unobtainable, pressure is … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Columbus Dispatch, Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, criminal justice, death penalty, deterrence, expense, Governor DeWine, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injection drugs, March 2020, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, racial bias, religion, Republicans, Senator Nickie Antonio, USA
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
Encouraging News
2019 is ending on an encouraging note for the Ohio death row inmates. In mid December Governor DeWine stated that Ohio is “not very close” to resuming executions; the following week Republican House Speaker, Larry Householder, confirmed that abolition of … Continue reading
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
Ohio Officials Reflect
Ohio’s governor, Governor DeWine, has admitted that the state’s deception when buying execution drugs could result in legitimate users in Ohio being deprived of their medicines.. The state has been purchasing drugs for executions through its Department of Mental Health and … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, execution drugs, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged August 2019, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, execution drugs, execution protocol, Governor Mike DeWine, House Speaker Larry Householder, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, pharmaceutical companies, Senate President Larry Obhof, USA
Eric Horn: Not Lured Away
Troy Beard lived near the home of the victim in Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case. It was the short distance to Beard’s apartment that Jeffrey Wogenstahl drove Eric Horn in the early hours of November 24, 1991.[i] At Jeff’s trial, Horn claimed … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, drug trafficking, Eric Horn, false testimony, Hamilton Court of Common Pleas, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2019, jurors, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, Troy Beard, unreliable witnesses, USA, wrongful convictions
Wogenstahl is actually innocent.
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has filed a claim of actual innocence* in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. The standard to be met for such a claim is very high, requiring that: “evidence not available or presented at trial, in combination … Continue reading
Posted in actual innocence, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged actual innocence, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, District Judge, Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, June 2019, jurors, miscarriages of justice, Oho, On Motion to Authorize the Filing of a Second or Successive Application for Habeas Corpus. No. 1:17-cv-00298—Thomas M. Rose, Petitioner Wogenstahl’s Amendment to his Successive Post-Conviction Petition, USA, wrongful convictions
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
