Boyd Executed for 1993 Kidnapping and Murder of Gregory Huguley

Boyd Executed for 1993 Kidnapping and Murder of Gregory Huguley

Atmore, Ala. – The State of Alabama on Thursday evening executed death row inmate Anthony Todd Boyd, convicted in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of Gregory Huguley in Anniston. Boyd, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. CDT at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore following the administration of nitrogen hypoxia, the second time the method has been used in the state’s history.

Governor Kay Ivey confirmed earlier in the evening that she would not exercise her clemency powers and directed Corrections Commissioner John Hamm to proceed with the lawfully imposed death sentence.

“On the evening of July 31, 1993, Anthony Boyd and three other men kidnapped Gregory Huguley at gunpoint in Anniston over a $200 drug debt,”