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

December 20, 2025 by salah

When he was ultimately found guilty of capital murder by a jury in 1995, Boyd was reduced to tears. He is said to have told reporters shortly afterwards: “I’ll maintain my innocence until the day I die.”

And maintain it he did. With some of his last words prior to his execution yesterday, Boyd said: “I just wanna say again, I didn’t kill anybody, I didn’t participate in killing anybody.

“I just want everyone to know, there is no justice in this state.”

He was thereafter put to death by nitrogen gas, a process that sees a mask placed over the condemned prisoner’s face before the gas is administered. Coincidentally, the US Supreme Court recently raised serious concerns over the execution method, claiming it causes ‘intense psychological torment’.