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A death row inmate has insisted "I didn't kill anybody" in his last words as he was executed for murder yesterday. ‌

Anthony Boyd had for over 30 years persisted that he didn't kill a man. In his last words before being executed by nitrogen gas at the Alabama jail, he said: "I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in killing anybody." ‌

The 54-year-old man had begged the state’s governor to meet him "before an innocent man is executed" but the killing went ahead on Thursday. ‌

Boyd was convicted of helping to burn Gregory Huguley alive in 1993 over a $200 (£150) drug debt. He spent the following three decades on death row at William C Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, reports the Mirror .

Speaking minutes before the nitrogen gas was depl

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