Inmate’s haunting final act of life before execution by controversial method

Anthony Todd Boyd yesterday became the seventh inmate in Alabama to be executed using a new controversial method, just hours after it was condemned.

The 54-year-old’s sentence was carried out in the evening of October 23, with state officials confirming that he was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. local time.

Boyd was convicted after the shocking 1993 murder of Gregory Huguley. Prosecutors at trial argued that he and three other men had tracked down Huguley over an alleged $200 cocaine debt.

They subsequently kidnapped Huguley before dousing him in gasoline and watching as he burned to death. Boyd’s accomplices testified against him, though he claimed to have been at a party while the horrific crime played out.