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Tag Archives: Chillicothe Correctional Institution
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
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
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
Shadow of Execution Date Lifted
Jeffrey Wogenstahl has been granted an indefinite stay of execution by the Ohio Supreme Court (see Supreme Court of Ohio Case Announcements October 24, 2018): 1995-0042. State v. Wogenstahl. Hamilton App. No. C-930222. On appellant’s motion to reopen direct appeal. Motion … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death row, FBI hair testimony, hair analysis, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, jurors, jury, October 2018, official misconduct, Ohio, Ohio Southern District Court, Ohio Supreme Court, police file, stay of execution, suppressed evidence, Supreme Court of Ohio, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
An Unseemly Spectacle
Alva Campbell is next in line to be executed by the State of Ohio.* For the last month of his life, Campbell will have been intensely monitored: two corrections officers watch him round the clock to ensure there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Alva Campbell, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, Ohio, torture, USA
Tagged Alva Campbell, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death watch, forensic psychologist, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, October 2017, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, sociologist, torture, USA
Move to Toledo Abandoned
The men on death row in Ohio will no longer need to worry about relocating to a prison in Toledo: the proposed move has been abandoned ten months after it was announced. Jeffrey Wogenstahl and the other death row inmates at … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prisoners, prisons, September 2017, stress, Toledo, Toledo Correctional Institution, USA
Amber’s Disappearance: Evidence Suppressed
The prosecution in Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case advanced the theory that the victim, Amber Garrett, was snatched hastily from her bed as she slept. However, it appears that to convince the jurors of this theory, prosecutors suppressed significant evidence.* This evidence … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, suppressed evidence, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged Amber Garrett, Bright Indiana, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, impeached testimony, Indiana, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2017, Ohio, Peggy Garrett, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Wogenstahl, wrongful conviction
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Move to Toledo: “It’s just another prison.”
Jeffrey Wogenstahl, and the other death row inmates at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, Ohio, were told yesterday that they will be moved in the near future. Their destination is Toledo Correctional Institution, which is about 4 miles from Ohio’s northern border with … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Toledo Correctional Institution, USA
Tagged aging inmates, birds, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Lake Eerie, Mansfield Correctional Institution, Michigan, October 2016, Ohio, prisoners, prisons, Toledo, Toledo Correctional Institution, USA
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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
Evolving Standards of Decency
There has been very good news on Ohio’s death row this month: one of the inmates, Rayshawn Johnson, has had his death sentence set aside. Even Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, who in 2006 dissented in a similar case, was swayed this … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Rayshawn Johnson, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged abuse, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice system, David Dow, death penalty, death row, evolving standards of decency, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, mitigating factors, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, Rayshawn Johnson, USA
