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State murder of a black man. Or, why I oppose the death penalty.
Alabama executes man on death row by controversial nitrogen gas method
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas-anthony-boyd
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An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive was executed by nitrogen gas – a form of suffocation which defense lawyers have described as cruel and unusual punishment – on Thursday shortly after the US supreme court signed off on the seventh execution using the contested method.
Anthony Boyd, 54, was sent to the death chamber at the William C Holman correctional facility on Thursday evening.
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Boyd has always protested his innocence. The prosecution case depended on the testimony of an eyewitness with no forensic evidence connecting Boyd to the crime.
“I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in any killing,” Boyd said when he phoned in to a recent press conference held by his supporters.
His death sentence was handed down by a jury vote of 10 to two. Alabama and Florida are the only states that allow people to be sent to death row on the basis of a non-unanimous jury verdict.
Anthony Boyd, 54, was sent to the death chamber at the William C Holman correctional facility on Thursday evening.
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Boyd has always protested his innocence. The prosecution case depended on the testimony of an eyewitness with no forensic evidence connecting Boyd to the crime.
“I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in any killing,” Boyd said when he phoned in to a recent press conference held by his supporters.
His death sentence was handed down by a jury vote of 10 to two. Alabama and Florida are the only states that allow people to be sent to death row on the basis of a non-unanimous jury verdict.
Maybe he helped burn that man alive ... perhaps the excruciating method of execution seems deserved, then?
But, what if he DIDN'T ??
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