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Tag Archives: death row
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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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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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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Exculpatory Evidence Suppressed
On October 25, 2005, Derrick Jamison left Ohio’s death row; exactly 20 years before that he was sentenced to death in Hamilton County, Ohio. The courts had recognized that the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office unfairly suppressed exculpatory information about his … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Cincinnati, criminal justice, death penalty, exculpatory evidence, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Cincinnati Police Department, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, Derrick Jamison, exculpatory evidence, Hamilton County, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, November 2018, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, suppressed evidence, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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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
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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
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Shifting Opinions
Twenty-three years ago, Jeffrey Wogenstahl was immersed in reading law books and writing his own appeal, because he felt that his legal representation at trial had been inadequate. There have been many changes since then. One that should gladden Jeff … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Gallup polls, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, public opinion, USA
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, death row, Gallup polls, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, November 2017, Ohio, Pew Research Center poll, public opinion, Republican Party, USA, wrongful convictions
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The Pursuit of Torture
On Wednesday this week, Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s fellow inmate, Alva Campbell, is set to die. As a child, Alva Campbell was forced by his father to play games of torture. One was the electrical current game: all the children held hands … Continue reading
Posted in Alva Campbell, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, torture, USA
Tagged Alva Campbell, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, emotional instability, executions, firing squad, frailty, illness, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injections, midazolam, November 2017, Ohio, pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride, torture, USA
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