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- Jeff’s 60th Birthday November 23, 2020
- 2020 US Election October 10, 2020
- Covid-19 on Death Row August 6, 2020
- Excessive and Inhuman July 31, 2020
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Tag Archives: Hamilton County
Justice Joseph T. Deters
Today, March 17, 2023, we remember the disastrous day, 30 years ago, when Jeffrey Wogenstahl entered death row. On March 17, 1993, Jeff received his sentence of death; his removal to death row followed. Throughout his long incarceration in prisons … Continue reading
Peggy Garrett Acting Weird
Two witnesses have added their testimony to the mountain of evidence that calls Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s murder conviction into question.[i] Donald and Melissa Ellis described Peggy Garrett as “acting weird” in the company of a tall man in the Waffle House … Continue reading
Joe Deters’ Omissions
A recent article about the current state of Ohio’s death penalty touches on the case of Jeffrey Wogenstahl. It allows us to glimpse the reaction of the lead prosecutor at Jeff’s trial, Joe Deters, to Jeff’s ongoing claim of innocence. … Continue reading
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
No reasonable fact finder would have found him guilty
At long last a court has taken seriously Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s claim that his trial was unfair!* The United States Court of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit has sent Jeff’s case back to the district court. The focus of the district … Continue reading
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
What the State Suppressed about Jeff’s Cat*
When Jeffrey Wogenstahl became a suspect in the murder of Amber Garrett his apartment was searched, and testing was performed on various blood traces found there: the only confirmed human blood did not match the blood of the victim. Testing … Continue reading
Hamilton on the Map
Hamilton County, Ohio, is where Jeffrey Wogenstahl was sentenced to death for a murder that he says he did not commit. An interactive map showing all US counties now confirms Sister Helen Prejean’s words: “Hamilton County kind of stands out.” … Continue reading
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
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