Alabama executed Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, with nitrogen gas for a 1993 murder on Thursday, after he used his final words to maintain his innocence and criticize the justice system.

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Boyd was convicted of the grisly killing of Gregory Huguley over a $200 cocaine debt. Prosecutors said Boyd taped Huguley’s feet together before another man doused him with gasoline and set him on fire.

Boyd had always denied the slaying. "I just want to say again, I didn't kill anybody, I didn't participate in killing anybody. Just want everyone to know, there is no justice in this state," Boyd said in his last words, as reported by the Montgomery Advertiser .

He added that everything he had said in his various appeals in court was valid, but that the courts "all backed each other up" in keepin

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