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Tag Archives: US Supreme Court
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
The USA: A Shameful Record
The USA has a poor reputation when it comes to executions. A report* by Amnesty International found the following: -Most UN member states were execution-free last year;** but the USA continued to execute. -The USA was the only one of … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, injustice, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, revenge, USA
Tagged Amnesty International, Arkansas, death sentences, DNA testing, executions, G8, injustice, intellectual disabilities, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ledell Lee, lethal injection chemicals, lethal injections, May 2017, Ohio, Organization of American States, revenge, UN, US Supreme Court, USA
Executions Halted
For now, Ohio cannot perform its scheduled executions: Judge Merz, a federal magistrate judge, has ruled against its proposed lethal injection protocol. The ruling has been appealed by the state. In his federal court testimony Gary Mohr, Director of the Ohio … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Eighth Amendment, executions, February 2017, Gary Mohr, Glossip v. Gross, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Judge Merz, lethal-injection protocol, midazolam, Ohio, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Ohio Execution Protocol Litigation, paralytic agent, potassium chloride, US Supreme Court, 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
Risk of Intolerable Pain and Suffering
For death penalty opponents, whose stance is no longer opposed by the majority of the US population, today is a very sad day: the Ohio Attorney General’s office has announced that it wishes executions to resume in January. What is more, the new lethal … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal-injection drugs, midazolam, Ohio, USA
Tagged botched executions, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Dennis McGuire, executions, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, lethal injections, midazolam, October 2016, Ohio, Ohioans to Stop Executions, potassium chloride, rocuronium bromide, US Supreme Court, USA
Premeditated Attempted Murder
A federal judge described the prosecutorial misconduct in Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case as “wholly improper” and “plain and plentiful”.* Despite this, and despite additional recent evidence which supports Jeff’s claim of innocence, he was given an execution date (stayed two months … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Ohio, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, wrongful conviction
Tagged America’s Top Five Deadliest Prosecutors: How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fair Punishment Project, injustice, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, John Thompson, July 2016, Louisiana, murder, Ohio, prosecutor immunity, prosecutorial misconduct, prosecutors, US Supreme Court, USA, wrongful convictions
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“Motion to recuse denied.”
Ohio Supreme Court Justice O’Neill has made it clear that he will not grant a request to remove himself from Jeffrey Wogenstahl’s case. The judge explained: “…it would be a violation of my oath of office to ignore my obligation to … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Indiana, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, jurisdiction, Justice O'Neill, Ohio, USA
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Indiana, Innocence Project, Jeff Wogenstahl, Jeffrey Wogenstahl, Joe Deters, June 2016, jurisdiction, Justice Breyer, Justice Ginsburg, Justice William O'Neill, Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, prosecutorial misconduct, recusal, US Supreme Court, USA, wrongful convictions
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