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Tag Archives: Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation
Will Ohio’s Death Penalty End?
Four times in the last decade Ohio’s Democrat Senator Nickie Antonio has sponsored a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state, without success. This year feels different. With executions halted because lethal injection drugs are unobtainable, pressure is … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Columbus Dispatch, Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, criminal justice, death penalty, deterrence, expense, Governor DeWine, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injection drugs, March 2020, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, racial bias, religion, Republicans, Senator Nickie Antonio, USA
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Execution Date Stayed!
Wonderful news! The Ohio Supreme Court has today issued the following announcement about Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case: 1995-0042. State v. Wogenstahl. Hamilton App. No. C-930222. On motion to vacate execution date and to reopen direct appeal. Motion granted. Appellant’s execution date … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death penalty, death row, executions, Hamilton County, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, May 2016, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Ohio Supreme Court, stay of execution, torture, USA, wrongful convictions
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More than just Innocence
Speaking at Ohio’s Death Penalty Lobby Day last week, Ohio Republican Sen. Bill Seitz of Cincinnati assured death penalty opponents that he is “very, very dedicated” to doing “everything humanly possible to ensure that an innocent person is not subjected to death … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Lobby Day, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged April 2016, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Penalty Lobby Day, Department of Justice, FBI hair testimony, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Martin LeFevre, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Ohioans to Stop Executions, prosecutorial misconduct, Sen. Bill Seitz, Terry Collins, USA, wrongful convictions
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Judges Don’t Care
According to Terry Collins, the former Director of the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, “[judges don’t] care whether there is new evidence whether the person is guilty or not guilty”.* Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s experience appears to support this. For instance, … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, FBI flawed forensics, FBI hair testimony, Hamilton County, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged 2016, Amber Garrett, capital punishment, death penalty, death row, FBI hair testimony review, FBI Testimony on Microscopic Hair Analysis, Hamilton County, Hamilton County Court of Appeals, January 2016, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, prosecutorial misconduct, prosecutors, Terry Collins, USA
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Ohio Pursues Unregulated Drug Markets
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
Posted in abuse, capital punishment, death penalty, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, USA
Tagged abuse, August 2015, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, death penalty, Drug Enforcement Administration, executions, Food and Drug Administration, human rights abuses, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injections, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, sodium thiopental, torture, unapproved drugs, USA
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Death Penalty Errors
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
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged capital punishment, Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, death penalty, death row, Dennis McGuire, execution drugs, executions, exonerations, Indiana, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, June 2015, Justice Karen Moore, Marc Hyden, Nebraska, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Terry Collins, USA, wrongful convictions
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The Insanity of Prosecutors; the Indifference of Judges
Many people have spoken about the injustice of the death penalty, but rarely do we hear about it from a prosecutor. However, last week Marty Stroud, a former prosecutor in Louisiana, bravely spoke out against what he sees as an … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, death row, executions, injustice, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, judges, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, prosecutors, USA, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2015, Attorney General, capital punishment, death penalty, death row, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Jim Petro, judges, juries, justice system, Louisiana, March 2015, Marty Stroud, Nancy Petro, Ohio, Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, prosecutors, Terry Collins, USA, wrongful convictions
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