MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man over a drug debt is set to be executed Thursday evening in the state’s latest death sentence carried out with nitrogen gas .

Anthony Boyd, 54, was sentenced to death for his role in killing Gregory Huguley in Talladega County more than 30 years ago. Prosecutors said Huguley was doused in gasoline and set on fire after he didn’t pay for $200 worth of cocaine.

Lawyers for Boyd were unsuccessfully in their attempts to have courts give additional scrutiny to the execution method to be used when his sentence is carried out Thursday evening at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in southern Alabama. They argued it was unconstitutionally cruel.

The method that Alabama began using last year uses a gas mask strapped over the

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