Tag Archives: Jeff Wogenstahl

Evidentiary Hearing Begins

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Justice for Willie

Jeffrey Wogenstah’s long-awaited evidentiary hearing began yesterday, Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at the Hamilton Court of Common Pleas. An expert botanist quashed the significance of the foliage on Jeff’s jacket by explaining that such foliage is not restricted to the … Continue reading →

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Evidentiary Hearing Delayed

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Justice for Willie

Judge Christian A. Jenkins, of the Hamilton Court of Common Pleas, has delayed Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s evidentiary hearing, which had been due to start this week. Judge Jenkins acted after the prosecution sought the Ohio Supreme Court’s support in delaying the … Continue reading →

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Move to Ross Correctional Institution

Posted on February 9, 2024 by teamwogenstahl

Seven years after the cancellation of a scheme to move Ohio’s death row inmates from Chillicothe Correctional Institution to Toledo, a new plan for moving has been announced. This time, the proposed destination is Ross Correctional Institution, less than a … Continue reading →

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‘Pen Pal’ Request

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Justice for Willie

Five years feels like a significant chunk of time. For instance, it feels significant (and hopeful) that it is five years since Ohio last carried out an execution. Similarly, it feels significant that today marks exactly five years since Jeffrey … Continue reading →

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Ohio: a de Facto Abolition State

Posted on August 12, 2023 by Justice for Willie

Ohio’s death penalty system has experienced a five-year hiatus. The last execution was of Robert van Hook, who was killed by employees of the state on July 18, 2018, despite evidence linking his behaviour to his “bizarre, chaotic, violent” childhood. … Continue reading →

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Jeff’s 60th Birthday

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Justice for Willie

Today, November 23, 2020, Jeffrey Wogenstahl turns 60. He never celebrates his birthday: it’s too harsh a reminder that soon after his 31st birthday, someone murdered a little girl that he knew. Amber Garrett’s body was found in Bright, Indiana, … Continue reading →

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Covid-19 on Death Row

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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Excessive and Inhuman

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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Jurisdiction Ruling: a Reassuring Footnote

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Justice for Willie

A Sixth Circuit court has denied[i] Jeffrey Wogenstahl the opportunity to make a separate appeal to establish whether Ohio had jurisdiction to try him. Jeff wanted to appeal an Ohio Supreme Court’s ruling[ii] from 2017. In that ruling the majority … Continue reading →

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More Good News

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Justice for Willie

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 →

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