Overview
- Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to be executed Thursday by nitrogen gas at Holman prison after more than three decades on death row.
- In a recorded message played Tuesday, Boyd asked Gov. Kay Ivey to meet him before the execution and reiterated his claim of innocence.
- Advocates say they will deliver a clemency petition to the governor on Wednesday in Montgomery and urge witness access to the mask-securing step.
- The execution remains set after Chief U.S. District Judge Emily Marks denied Boyd’s challenge to the protocol and the 11th Circuit declined a stay.
- Boyd was convicted in the 1993 burning death of Gregory Huguley over a $200 drug debt, a case the attorney general’s office says has been litigated for decades.