14 May 2010 :

Michael Beuke was executed today. Beuke, 48, white, was sentenced to death in October 1983 for the June 1, 1983 killing of Robert Craig, 27. Prison officials were concerned in the past week that they might not be able to procure enough thiopental sodium, the single drug used in Ohio executions, because of a worldwide shortage. However, the state was able to find enough of the drug to kill Beuke. He was the 5th Ohioan executed in 5 months this year and the 38th since capital punishment resumed in 1999. Beuke becomes the 17th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1205th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.