Convicted killer Anthony Boyd executed for 1993 capital murder

Anthony Boyd – Photo from Alabama Department of Corrections via AP

Convicted killer Anthony Boyd has been executed by the State of Alabama for a 1993 capital murder case.

The Alabama Department of Corrections says Boyd was executed by nitrogen hypoxia at Holman Prison in Atmore at 6:33PM tonight.

Boyd, who was 53 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1993 capital murder of Gregory Huguley in Talladega County. Prosecutors said Huguley was burned alive over a $200 drug debt.

Huguley’s burned body was found Aug. 1, 1993, in a rural Talladega County ball field.

Prosecutors said Boyd was one of four men who kidnapped Huguley the prior evening. A prosecution witness at the trial testified as part of a plea agreement and said that Boyd taped Huguley’s feet together before another man doused him in gasoline and set him on fire. Boyd’s attorneys said he was at a party on the night of the murder.

A jury convicted Boyd of capital murder during a kidnapping and recommended by a vote of 10-2 that he receive a death sentence.

Shawn Ingram, the man prosecutors accused of pouring the gasoline and then setting Huguley on fire, was also convicted of capital murder and is also on Alabama’s death row.