The State of Alabama executed Anthony Todd Boyd by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.

On July 31, 1993, Boyd and several co-defendants kidnapped Gregory Huguley in Anniston over a $200 cocaine debt. The men transported Huguley to a baseball field in Munford, where they duct-taped him to a bench, doused him with gasoline, set him on fire, and watched as he burned to death.

Boyd was convicted by a jury of capital murder during a kidnapping and sentenced to death. Over the following three decades, Boyd repeatedly delayed his execution, first in 2014, when he challenged Alabama's lethal injection protocol, and again in 2018, when he selected nitrogen hypoxia as his preferred method of execution.

"On the evening of July 31, 1993, Anthony Bo

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