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Alabama death row inmate insists innocence, urges governor to meet him before nitrogen-gas execution
An Alabama man on death row asked Gov. Kay Ivey to meet with him "before an innocent man is executed," as he seeks to halt the state's plans to put him to death.
Death row inmate Todd Boyd maintained his innocence before being put to death via nitrogen gas for a grisly 1993 murder.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Anthony Todd Boyd should not be the eight man executed with the controversial method of nitrogen hypoxia.
Two men have been convicted in connection with the “execution-style” killing of a 33-year-old man during a robbery in 2020, New Mexico officials said. In December 2020, Antonio Jaramillo’s friend found him tied up and shot inside a home, according to a news release by the Albuquerque Police Department.
Death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be executed on December 11, but must choose his method of execution by November 11.
Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices.
Attorneys are asking a federal judge to block next month’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer, arguing Florida’s death-warrant process “has rendered the right of (legal)
The suit claims that Tennessee’s lethal injection and electrocution methods of executions prevent witnesses (public and press) from viewing the entirety of executions in the state.