Overview

• Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on Oct. 23, using a mask that replaces breathable air with pure nitrogen.
• At a Talladega news conference beside a “Save Anthony Boyd” billboard, family and supporters organized by the Execution Intervention Project and the Rev. Jeff Hood urged the state to halt the execution.
• Boyd’s attorneys asked a federal judge to block the execution, arguing his asthma and the state’s heavily redacted protocol create unacceptable danger and could leave a prisoner severely injured but alive.
• Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said the case has been litigated for three decades and that Boyd has not produced evidence showing the jury erred in convicting him of the 1993 killing of Gregory Huguley.
• Hood, who witnessed the first nitrogen execution, described minutes of visible heaving; the state has said such movements are resistance or involuntary responses during dying, and records show Boyd chose nitrogen in 2018 when given the option.