The US state of Alabama has executed a man convicted in a 1993 killing, using nitrogen gas, a controversial method of execution that has been described by critics as a “cruel and unusual form of punishment.”

Anthony Boyd, 54, was executed on Thursday evening in the United States for killing a man by setting him on fire over a $200 drug debt.

Boyd has maintained his innocence in the case and repeated his position in his last words.”I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in killing anybody,” he said on Thursday, according to CBS News. “There can be no justice until we change this system.”

Boyd’s death marks the seventh time that Alabama has used nitrogen gas on death row inmates since January 2024.

The method has been used instead of the intravenous lethal injection due to complicat

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