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- Jeff’s 60th Birthday November 23, 2020
- 2020 US Election October 10, 2020
- Covid-19 on Death Row August 6, 2020
- Excessive and Inhuman July 31, 2020
- Jurisdiction Ruling: a Reassuring Footnote June 9, 2020
- Will Ohio’s Death Penalty End? March 8, 2020
- More Good News January 25, 2020
- Encouraging News December 22, 2019
- Guilt, Shame and Mental Torment November 5, 2019
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Category Archives: USA
Optimism in Ohio
The last few months have seen Ohio edging ever closer to repealing the death penalty. In December Governor DeWine remarked, “Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today.” Executions had then been on hold … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged 2021, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death penalty abolition, executions, exonerations, February 2021, Governor DeWine, House Bill 136, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mental illness, Ohio, public opinion, USA, wrongful convictions
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Jeff’s 60th Birthday
Today, November 23, 2020, Jeffrey Wogenstahl turns 60. He never celebrates his birthday: it’s too harsh a reminder that soon after his 31st birthday, someone murdered a little girl that he knew. Amber Garrett’s body was found in Bright, Indiana, … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Garrett, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, Bright, capital punishment, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Indiana, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Christian Jenkins, Judge Patrick Dinkelacker, November 2020, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, United States Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit, USA, wrongful convictions
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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
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Covid-19 on Death Row
Covid-19 has come to Ohio’s death row: 23 death row inmates have tested positive for the virus. None of the cases is in the block where Jeffrey Wogenstahl is incarcerated. The inmates who have contracted the virus are in isolation. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged August 2020, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, coronavirus, Covid-19, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
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Excessive and Inhuman
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has been on death row for an astonishing 27 years. He’s not alone in suffering such a long period of incarceration: of the 138 inmates on Ohio’s death row, 71 have been imprisoned for 20 years or more; … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, incarceration, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged American Declaration of Human Rights, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, death row, DPIC, human rights abuse, IACHR, incarceration, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2020, Ohio, protracted incarceration, USA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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