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Category Archives: wrongful convictions
Tell Governor Kasich to stay executions.
Ohio has only paid lip service to the 56 recommendations of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty. A recent report found: “The death penalty in Ohio remains plagued by the very same … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged A Relic of the Past: Ohio’s Dwindling Death Penalty, capital punishment, criminal justice system, death penalty, executions, Governor Kasich, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio’s Death Penalty, October 2016, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, pending executions, USA
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“It’s not going to happen.”
Joe Deters, the prosecutor in Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case, has asked Justice O’Neill to remove himself from Jeff’s case because of his opposition to the death penalty. Legal expert, Martin Pinales, stated categorically, “It’s not going to happen.” He explained that the Ohio … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, death row, executions, forensic hair testimony, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, Justice O'Neill, Martin Pinales, May 2016, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, USA, wrongful convictions
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Execution Date Stayed!
Wonderful news! The Ohio Supreme Court has today issued the following announcement about Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case: 1995-0042. State v. Wogenstahl. Hamilton App. No. C-930222. On motion to vacate execution date and to reopen direct appeal. Motion granted. Appellant’s execution date … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death penalty, death row, executions, Hamilton County, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, May 2016, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Ohio Supreme Court, stay of execution, torture, USA, wrongful convictions
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More than just Innocence
Speaking at Ohio’s Death Penalty Lobby Day last week, Ohio Republican Sen. Bill Seitz of Cincinnati assured death penalty opponents that he is “very, very dedicated” to doing “everything humanly possible to ensure that an innocent person is not subjected to death … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Lobby Day, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged April 2016, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Lobby Day, Department of Justice, FBI hair testimony, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Martin LeFevre, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Ohioans to Stop Executions, prosecutorial misconduct, Sen. Bill Seitz, Terry Collins, USA, wrongful convictions
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Police Bias
Hillary Clinton seemed extremely uncomfortable when confronted by Ricky Jackson earlier this month about her support for the death penalty. This is not surprising: Jackson’s wrongful death sentence four decades ago was the direct result of Ohioan police coercing a 12 … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, injustice, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, law enforcement, Ohio, police, police bias, Ricky Jackson, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, Clive Stafford Smith, death penalty, Hamilton County, Hillary Clinton, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, judges, law enforcement, March 2016, Ohio, police, police bias, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Ricky Jackson, USA, Wogenstahl, wrongful convictions
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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
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I’m not going to watch the poor thing starve
Death row is a sombre place, but there is plenty of time to see things that would go unremarked by the rest of us. On Ohio’s death row at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, Jeffrey Wogenstahl was watching a starling with a … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, incarceration, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prisons, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2015, August 2015, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death penalty, death row, human rights violations, incarceration, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, prisons, USA, wrongful convictions
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A Bitter Blow
The Glossip v. Gross ruling is a bitter blow for death penalty opponents. A deeply divided and acrimonious US Supreme Court ruled 5:4 last week that: “Because the death penalty is constitutional there must be a constitutional way of carrying it … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Glossip v. Gross, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, death row, Glossip v. Gross, Ian Millhiser, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, John Stinneford, July 2015, Justice Scalia, lethal injections, Michael Radelet, midazolam, Ohio, Richard Glossip, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States, torture, USA, wrongful convictions
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Death Penalty Errors
The repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska last month was described by Andrea Lyon in the New York Daily News as a ‘Nixon-visits-Red-China moment’: in over 40 years no other conservative state has abolished the death penalty. Libertarian-minded conservatives formed … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, death penalty, death row, Dennis McGuire, execution drugs, executions, exonerations, Indiana, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2015, Justice Karen Moore, Marc Hyden, Nebraska, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Terry Collins, USA, wrongful convictions
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Justice for Jeffrey Wogenstahl 