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Alabama Death Row Inmate Executed with Nitrogen Gas Over 1993 Murder
- On Thursday, Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, was executed by nitrogen gas for the 1993 killing of Gregory Huguley at William C Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama.
- Boyd was found guilty in 1995 with a jury recommending death in a 10-2 decision and pursued decades of appeals before U.S. courts refused to stop the sentence.
- Reporters described prolonged movements and heaving breaths during the execution, which officials said lasted longer than previous cases using a gas mask with pure nitrogen.
- Family members and supporters made last-minute pleas to spare Boyd's life, but Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said, `For more than 30 years, Boyd sought to delay justice through endless litigation, yet he never once presented evidence that the jury was wrong.`
- Alabama's use of nitrogen, introduced last year, has led to eight executions nationwide, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent questioning its constitutional validity; she called for an end to the method.
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