Tag Archives: Jeff Wogenstahl

Ohio Pursues Unregulated Drug Markets

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Last month we reported that Ohio had been granted a licence by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) allowing it to import sodium thiopental (one of the two drugs permitted for executions in Ohio). We noted, however, that a different … Continue reading →

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I’m not going to watch the poor thing starve

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Death row is a sombre place, but there is plenty of time to see things that would go unremarked by the rest of us. On Ohio’s death row at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, Jeffrey Wogenstahl was watching a starling with a … Continue reading →

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Lack of Execution Drugs

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Ohio’s current execution policy calls for single doses of either sodium thiopental or pentobarbital, both powerful sedatives. But drugs for lethal injections are hard to come by. The EU banned the export of these drugs for use in executions. Ohio responded by passing … Continue reading →

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A Bitter Blow

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Justice for Willie

The Glossip v. Gross ruling is a bitter blow for death penalty opponents. A deeply divided and acrimonious US Supreme Court ruled 5:4 last week that: “Because the death penalty is constitutional there must be a constitutional way of carrying it … Continue reading →

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Death Penalty Errors

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Justice for Willie

The repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska last month was described by Andrea Lyon in the New York Daily News as a ‘Nixon-visits-Red-China moment’: in over 40 years no other conservative state has abolished the death penalty. Libertarian-minded conservatives formed … Continue reading →

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Death Penalty Victims

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Justice for Willie

The Governor of Ohio, Governor Kasich, supports the death penalty because he feels that it provides justice and closure to the grieving families of murder victims.* Perhaps he should talk to Melinda Dawson†, whose mother was brutally murdered in Barberton, … Continue reading →

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Eyewitness Misidentification

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Justice for Willie

At the time of Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s trial the law had not yet embraced the concerns about eye witness identification that scientists had been highlighting for years. It was only when DNA exonerations flagged up the prevalence of misidentification even when … Continue reading →

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Snitch Testimony, and the Magical Appearance of Hair

Posted on May 11, 2015 by teamwogenstahl

At Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s trial, testimony was given by a so-called ‘jailhouse snitch’, Bruce Wheeler, an informant who said he had heard Jeff confess to the murder of 10-year-old Amber Garrett. Why should we worry about this? Because, as Radley Balko … Continue reading →

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Deafening Alarm Bells

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Justice for Willie

In August 2013, Jeffrey Wogenstahl received a letter from the Department of Justice informing him that an FBI expert’s hair testimony in his case exceeded the limits of science, and should be discounted. It seems that Jeff is far from … Continue reading →

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Ohioans to Stop Executions: Report 2015

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Justice for Willie

Ohioans to Stop Executions (OTSE) has brought out its second annual report about the current state of the death penalty in Ohio. Jeffrey Wogenstahl is mentioned twice in this. The first time is in Justice O’Neill’s comments about the death penalty … Continue reading →

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