Posted: August 20, 2015
A Food and
Drug Administration letter to the Ohio
Department of Rehabilitation and
Correction indicated the state was
considering importing sodium
thiopental from overseas for use in
executions. The letter warned the
department that importing the drug
would violate federal law: "Please
note that there is no FDA approved
application for sodium thiopental, and
it is illegal to import an unapproved
new drug into the United States." A
similar letter was sent to Nebraska
officials after the state spent over
$50,000 in an attempt to obtain lethal
injection drugs from a source in
India. All executions were put on hold
in Ohio after the botched execution of
Dennis McGuire in 2014, as the state
has pursued a new execution protocol.
The potential foreign supplier was not
revealed because Ohio, like many other
states, keeps the identity of
execution-drug suppliers secret. 
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