Category Archives: USA

Thirty Long Years

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Justice for Willie

Today, November 24, 2021, marks thirty long years since the very sad time when 10 year-old Amber Garrett was reported missing from her home. As well as being saddened to hear that a child he knew had been murdered, Jeffrey … Continue reading →

Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, Ohio, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, wrongful convictions | Tagged Amber Garrett, Brian Noel, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, November 2021, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, police misconduct, USA, witnesses, wrongful convictions | Leave a comment

Peggy Garrett Acting Weird

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Justice for Willie

Two witnesses have added their testimony to the mountain of evidence that calls Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s murder conviction into question.[i] Donald and Melissa Ellis described Peggy Garrett as “acting weird” in the company of a tall man in the Waffle House … Continue reading →

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Optimism in Ohio

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

Jeff’s 60th Birthday

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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2020 US Election

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

Covid-19 on Death Row

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 | Leave a comment

Excessive and Inhuman

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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Jurisdiction Ruling: a Reassuring Footnote

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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Will Ohio’s Death Penalty End?

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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More Good News

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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