A letter from the FDA explains that the shipment would be illegal. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services expects the drug to arrive sometime in the next week.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts address the Legislature, which recently abolished the death penalty.
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Nebraska's next shipment of execution drugs may never arrive. That's because the drugs are from a foreign supplier and the U.S. government is prepared to seize them.
The state, in fact, should be expecting this.
Earlier this year, Nebraska approached Chris Harris, a small supplier in India who has sold drugs to the state before, to sell massive amounts of sodium thiopental so the state could execute the 10 people remaining on its death row.
"Please give me a call when you have time to discuss," Nebraska Corrections Director Scott Frakes recently wrote to the would-be supplier of the state's execution drugs.
His email contained an attachment: a 2013 court ruling that spells out that the drugs the state spent more than $50,000 on would not be allowed into the United States.
Nebraska Department of Correctional Services
The drugs aren't approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and the court ruling that Frakes attached makes it clear that the FDA has no choice but to seize the drugs when they come to the states.
The shipment, enough for hundreds of lethal injections, is expected to arrive any day now, according to public records and emails obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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