Alabama executes inmate Anthony Boyd despite innocence claims in 1993 burning death

Alabama executed an inmate using nitrogen gas Thursday night, despite the man’s claims of innocence and a legal fight calling the execution method unconstitutional.

Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, died by breathing in nitrogen through a gas mask at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. The prison is where Alabama Death Row is housed, holds the state’s only execution chamber and is just miles north of the Florida border.