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Category Archives: 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Joe Deters’ Omissions
A recent article about the current state of Ohio’s death penalty touches on the case of Jeffrey Wogenstahl. It allows us to glimpse the reaction of the lead prosecutor at Jeff’s trial, Joe Deters, to Jeff’s ongoing claim of innocence. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, Ohio, USA
Tagged Amber Garrett, April 2019, capital punishment, Cincinnati Enquirer, criminal justice, death penalty, Hamilton County, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, jurors, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
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Conservatives Opposing the Death Penalty
A Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) seems an unlikely setting for action against the US death penalty: conservatives have hitherto been associated with an unthinking “tough on crime” philosophy that included support for capital punishment. Perhaps all this is set … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, Conservative Political Action Conference, Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, criminal justice, death penalty, expense, Hannah Cox, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, limiting government, March 2019, Ohio, sanctity of human life, tax dollars, USA, wrongful convictions
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
There is very good news from Ohio – executions there have been halted by the new governor, Governor Mike DeWine! Initially Governor DeWine postponed the scheduled execution of Warren Keith Henness; later he stopped other scheduled executions indefinitely. The governor … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged analgesic, capital punishment, criminal justice, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, death row, Derrick Jamison, execution protocol, executions, February 2019, Governor Mike DeWine, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, midazolam, Ohio, pulmonary edema, USA, Warren Keith Henness
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Do they deserve to kill?
Warren Keith Henness is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. He claims innocence of the murder of which he was convicted, but is seeking only to have his death sentence commuted to incarceration, without death. … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, Warren Keith Henness
Tagged 2019, Bryan Stevenson, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, executions, forensic evidence, Governor Mike DeWine, ineffective trial counsel, January 2019, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Adult Parole Authority, police misconduct, post conviction lawyers, post-traumatic stress disorder, unreliable witnesses, USA, Warren Keith Henness
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Scope for Pitfalls Ahead
2018 has brought Jeffrey Wogenstahl a huge breakthrough – a federal court decision that spelled out the travesty that was his trial. As Jeff knows only too well, however, there is scope for pitfalls ahead. If he needed any proof … Continue reading
Posted in Anthony Aponovitch, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged Anthony Aponovitch, appeals, capital punishment, criminal justice, Cuyahoga County Court, death penalty, death row, December 2018, DNA testing, execution, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Southern District Court, Ohio Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA, wrongful convictions
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