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Tag Archives: DPIC
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
More Good News
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
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death sentences, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, USA
Tagged 2020, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, death sentencing, DPIC, executions, January 2020, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, USA
US Death Penalty: Systemic Problems
It is not surprising that public opinion in the USA is increasingly recoiling from the death penalty: the annual Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) report reveals continuing “systemic problems” in its implementation: “As use of the death penalty dwindles, one might … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged 2017, brain damage, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, DPIC, executions, innocence, intellectual disabilities, January 2018, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mental illness, Ohio, public opinion, trauma, USA, wrongful convictions
