Ohio to Change Drug Cocktail Used for Executions

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction on Friday announced it would soon allow a new chemical cocktail to be shot intravenously during lethal injections.

Department rules allow a combination of midazolam and hydromorphone to be injected directly into a condemned inmate's muscles if the DRC's drug of choice, pentobarbital, is unavailable.

But a new policy—effective Oct. 10—will allow midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a morphine derivative, to be injected directly into an inmate's veins instead of his muscles.

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