How to Use thiopental in a Sentence

thiopental

noun

• In 2015, Arizona tried to ship thiopental from out of the country.
  — Lauren Castle, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2020
• The first drug, sodium thiopental or pentobarbital, put the inmate to sleep; the second brought on paralysis; and the third stopped the heart.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 5 Dec. 2019
• All Sodium Pentothal — or its generic form, sodium thiopental — does is decrease your higher brain functions.
  — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2012
• The Drug Enforcement Agency seizes Georgia’s supply of thiopental, over questions of where the state obtained the drug.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 20 May 2021
• At the end of November 2010, Great Britain banned exports of thiopental for use in executions.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• Mississippi revised the protocol to allow the use of midazolam if thiopental or pentobarbital cannot be obtained.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 29 Nov. 2022
• The traditional three-drug cocktail used sodium thiopental as a sedative and vecuronium bromide or a similar compound as a paralytic.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 July 2019
• Lethal injection begins with a saline drip in the prisoner’s arm, followed by a dose of sodium thiopental, then pancuronium bromide, and finally potassium chloride.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• After years of struggling to acquire one of the drugs, sodium thiopental, Nebraska prison officials changed their rules last year to let the state corrections director choose which chemicals to use.
  — Grant Schulte, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
• In 2015, Arizona tried to illegally import sodium thiopental.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 June 2021
• Brooks, a Texan who was given a fatal dose of sodium thiopental, was also the first person to be executed in Texas after an 18-year moratorium.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Dec. 2022
• Officials in California arranged a swap with Arizona—muscle relaxants for sodium thiopental.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• States began using midazolam as an alternative after drugmakers began clamping down on the use of other products such as sodium thiopental or pentobarbital in lethal injections.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• Zivot and others have performed more than 200 autopsies on people killed by lethal injection using thiopental, pentobarbital or midazolam.
  — Dana G. Smith, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2022
• The American maker of the drug sodium thiopental, used to render a person unconscious before other lethal drugs are administered, stopped producing it in 2009.
  — Mark Alesia, Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2018
• The Georgia Department of Corrections announces that pentobarbital will be substituted for thiopental in the three-drug lethal injection process.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 20 May 2021
• But the protocol was never used in an execution, and after years of failing to acquire one of the drugs, sodium thiopental, Nebraska prison officials changed their rules to let the state corrections director choose which chemicals to use.
  — Grant Schulte, The Seattle Times, 6 Aug. 2018
• But three years ago, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice tried getting 1,000 vials of the barbiturate sodium thiopental from overseas.
  — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 15 June 2018
• Four years ago, the state tried to illegally import sodium thiopental, which had been used to carry out executions but was no longer manufactured by companies approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
  — CBS News, 26 July 2019
• Sodium thiopental, the barbiturate used in the injection that killed Brooks, and pancuronium bromide are typically used in medical settings to anesthetize patients — they were not designed for use in lethal injection procedures.
  — Abdullah Shihipar, Teen Vogue, 30 Oct. 2018
• After sodium thiopental became unobtainable, states began experimenting with alternatives.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 July 2019