Ohio might have a way to legally import execution drugs

Ohio prison officials think they have found a way to potentially import an execution drug without running afoul of the federal Food and Drug Administration. In a letter sent today to the FDA, Stephen Gray, chief counsel of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, argued that if the state meets a series of five criteria, including that the drug, sodium thiopental, is from an FDA-registered source, then it is legal to import.