The family of Anthony Boyd, an Alabama inmate set to be executed later this month, begged for his life to be spared at a press conference Wednesday morning.

“This is not just about me. This is about the injustice that’s going on in this state,” Boyd said via a phone call at the event. He claimed the state has spent more than three decades trying to kill “an innocent man.”

Boyd is set to be executed using nitrogen gas sometime on Oct. 23 or in the early morning hours of Oct. 24. He was convicted of burning a man to death in east Alabama more than 30 years ago.

The 53-year-old spoke via telephone at the press conference from behind bars at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, where male death row prisoners are housed.

The hour-long press conference was arranged by his spiritual ad

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