thiopental sodium

And that states have struggled to find a replacement for thiopental sodium since production of that drug ceased in the United States.

Last week, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sued the Food and Drug Administration over the federal government’s decision to block the state from importing the anesthetic thiopental sodium from a foreign distributor.

The state prison system wants to add a drug, thiopental sodium, previously used for lethal injections from 1999 to 2011, and pentobarbital as the two drugs permitted for lethal injections in the future.

Going forward, Ohio will only use the drugs thiopental sodium and pentobarbital for its executions, Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, informed District Judge Gregory Frost.

The new policy in Ohio means a dose of either pentobarbital or thiopental sodium, an anaesthetic, will be used.