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A Disturbing Ruling
A Sixth Circuit appeals court panel ruled this month that Ohio’s three-drug execution protocol does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. The panel’s decision is at odds with federal magistrate Judge Merz’s conclusion earlier this … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, Ohio, USA
Tagged cruel and unusual punishment, David Stebbins, death penalty, Doug Berman, Eighth Amendment, execution drugs, Governor Mike DeWine, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Merz, midazolam, October 2019, Ohio, pulmonary edema, Robert Dunham, suffocation, torture, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, USA
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
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
The Pursuit of Torture
On Wednesday this week, Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s fellow inmate, Alva Campbell, is set to die. As a child, Alva Campbell was forced by his father to play games of torture. One was the electrical current game: all the children held hands … Continue reading
Posted in Alva Campbell, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, torture, USA
Tagged Alva Campbell, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, emotional instability, executions, firing squad, frailty, illness, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injections, midazolam, November 2017, Ohio, pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride, torture, USA
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An Unseemly Spectacle
Alva Campbell is next in line to be executed by the State of Ohio.* For the last month of his life, Campbell will have been intensely monitored: two corrections officers watch him round the clock to ensure there is no … Continue reading
Posted in Alva Campbell, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, Ohio, torture, USA
Tagged Alva Campbell, capital punishment, Chillicothe Correctional Institution, criminal justice, death penalty, death watch, forensic psychologist, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, mitigating factors, mitigation, October 2017, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, sociologist, torture, USA
A Dirty Secret
It is a “dirty secret”, known by few, that the American death penalty system is “specifically engineered to ensure that those who are convicted stay convicted, guilty or not.”[i] This is how it works. Death sentences routinely result from poor defense … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death row, habeas corpus petition, injustice, innocence, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, torture, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged capital punishment, Catch-22, clear and convincing evidence, death penalty, death row, defense lawyers, federal court, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, new evidence, October 2017, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, reasonable diligence, Richard North Patterson, torture, USA, wrongful conviction
Burning at the Stake
Ohio has introduced a lethal injection protocol as cruel and unusual as “burning at the stake, crucifixion, and breaking on the wheel” (examples of punishments which the US constitution forbids as cruel and unusual). The state is emboldened by a … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, execution drugs, executions, Glossip v. Gross, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, midazolam
Tagged 2017, anesthetic, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Glossip v. Gross, January 2017, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Justice Sotomayor, lethal injections, lethal-injection drugs, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, Oklahoma, torture, USA
President Trump
President Obama has misgivings about the application of the death penalty; President Trump will have no such qualms. In 1989 Trump funded full page ads in four New York newspapers, calling for the return of the death penalty. The ads referred … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, Central Park Five, criminal justice, death penalty, injustice, innocence, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, November 2016, Ohio, police investigation, President-elect, torture, US Supreme Court, USA, waterboarding, wrongful convictions
‘Indiana’ Claim in Ohio Supreme Court
Last week the Ohio Supreme Court granted Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s motion to ‘vacate execution date and to re–open direct appeal’. A further court announcement came today: Jeff’s case will not have to go back to the lower court. Instead, it will be considered … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, death row, executions, Indiana, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, jurisdiction, May 2016, miscarriages of justice, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, torture, USA, wrongful convictions
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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
