WASHINGTON — At least three states — Texas, Ohio, and Arizona — have hired outside lawyers to help them obtain execution drugs that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a related court order have declared are illegal to import, BuzzFeed News has learned.

This is what is likely to happen if they do obtain those drugs:
It’s Really Hard to Believe How Much of a Disaster the U.S. Lethal Injection System Is (Slate.com)