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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
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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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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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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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Ripples of Sorrow
Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s trial was held in 1993. The following year in the state of Mississippi, another capital murder trial took place which was to change the life of one of the jurors forever.* In July, 1994, Lindy Lou Isonhood found … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, Lindy Lou Isonhood,, Ohio, post-traumatic stress disorder, USA
Tagged Bobby Wilcher, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, Lindy Lou Isonhood,, Lindy Lou Juror Number 2, Mississippi, official misconduct, Ohio, post-traumatic stress disorder, prosecutorial misconduct, September 2018, USA
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A Time of Elevated Torture
Robert Van Hook has been on Ohio’s death row longer than Jeffrey Wogenstahl. The state plans to kill Van Hook on Wednesday, July 18. He has extended family and friends who will mourn his death; they are the unintended victims … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mental illness, Ohio, Robert Van Hook, USA
Tagged borderline personality disorder, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Governor Kasich, Hamilton County, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, July 2018, mental illness, mitigation, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, OTSE, post-traumatic stress disorder, Robert Van Hook, substance abuse disorder, torture, USA
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Hamilton County: Vigilance Needed
Hamilton County, where Jeffrey Wogenstahl was tried, imposes the death penalty more frequently than the other counties in Ohio, and has more death row inmates than most of the over 3000 counties that make up the USA. Why is this? … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Hamilton County, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, injustice, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged Andrew Welsh-Huggins, capital punishment, Daryll Gumm, death penalty, Derrick Jamison, executions, February 2018, Hamilton County, Hamilton County Prosecutor's office, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, justice system, Michael Bies, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, Raymond Tibbetts, Ross Geiger, Terry Collins, USA
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Governor Kasich Knows
Raymond Tibbetts is due to be executed by the state of Ohio on February 13. Tibbetts suffered “toxic stress” during a traumatic and chaotic childhood, which “negatively affected the development of [his] brain, leading it to become wired in very … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, defense attorneys, injustice, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, prodecutorial misconduct, Raymond Tibbetts, USA
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death sentence, executions, February 2018, Governor John Kasich, Governor Kasich, Hamilton County, ineffective trial counsel, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurors, life without the possibilityof parole, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Ohio Parole Board, prosecutorial misconduct, Ray Tibbetts, Raymond Tibbetts, Ross Geiger, USA
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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
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