Boyd, who has maintained he did not commit the crime, made the request to meet with Gov. Kay Ivey, during a news conference hosted by the Execution Intervention Project and his spiritual adviser the Rev. Jeff Hood.<\/p>\n
“Before an innocent man is executed, come sit down with me and have a conversation with the guy you deemed one of the worst of the worst,” Boyd said in a recorded message played at the news conference.<\/p>\n
Boyd said if Ivey feels he is being deceptive or evasive during that meeting, “then please carry out the sentence.”<\/p>\n
“If not, then I ask you to stay this execution, to stop this execution to have my case fully and fairly investigated,” Boyd said.<\/p>\n
Mike Lewis, a spokesman for Ivey, said the governor personally reviews each case in which an execution has been ordered and set.<\/p>\n
“At this point, however, we have not seen any recent court filings disputing Mr. Boyd’s guilt in the horrific, burning-alive murder of Gregory Huguley. Nor have we received a clemency submission to such an effect,” Lewis wrote in an emailed response.<\/p>\n
He said the governor’s review does not include one-on-one meetings with inmates and called Boyd’s request “especially unworkable.”<\/p>\n
The Republican governor has halted one execution since she took office in 2017.<\/p>\n
Huguley’s burned body was found Aug. 1, 1993, in a rural Talladega County ball field.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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In this undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Anthony Boyd, who is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 23, 2025, by nitrogen gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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But Boyd’s lawyers insisted their client was innocent, introducing witnesses during the trial who testified that he had attended a birthday party the night Huguley was killed and slept at a hotel with his girlfriend.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Boyd spoke<\/a> via phone at a rally in Alabama, saying: \u00a0“I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in any killing.”<\/p>\n A jury convicted Boyd of capital murder during a kidnapping and recommended by a vote of 10-2 that he receive a death sentence.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Alabama last year began using nitrogen gas to carry out some executions.<\/p>\n Boyd’s attorneys have urged the federal courts to halt the execution to scrutinize the new method. A federal judge rejected the request. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday also declined a request by Boyd’s attorneys to stay the execution.<\/p>\n Boyd is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and relatively new execution method. The lethal injection alternative is designed to cause asphyxiation as inmates are forced to inhale pure nitrogen, instead of breathable air, through a gas mask. Critics believe the procedure constitutes undue suffering, but the state has repeatedly insisted it’s humane. Alabama\u00a0tested the method for the first time<\/a>\u00a0on a condemned inmate last January.<\/p>\n