Alabama inmate asks to meet with governor ahead of execution
[October 22, 2025]
By KIM CHANDLER
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate set to die this week
asked the state’s governor to meet with him “before an innocent man is
executed.”
Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening by
nitrogen gas at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility. A jury
convicted Boyd of capital murder for the 1993 burning death of Gregory
Huguley in Talladega County. Prosecutors said Huguley was burned alive
over a $200 drug debt.
Boyd, who has maintained he did not commit the crime, made the request
to meet with Gov. Kay Ivey, during a news conference hosted by the
Execution Intervention Project and his spiritual adviser the Rev. Jeff
Hood.
“Before an innocent man is executed, come sit down with me and have a
conversation with the guy you deemed one of the worst of the worst,”
Boyd said in a recorded message played at the news conference.
Boyd said if Ivey feels he is being deceptive or evasive during that
meeting, “then please carry out the sentence.”
“If not, then I ask you to stay this execution, to stop this execution
to have my case fully and fairly investigated,” Boyd said.
Mike Lewis, a spokesman for Ivey, said the governor personally reviews
each case in which an execution has been ordered and set.
“At this point, however, we have not seen any recent court filings
disputing Mr. Boyd’s guilt in the horrific, burning-alive murder of
Gregory Huguley. Nor have we received a clemency submission to such an
effect,” Lewis wrote in an emailed response.
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He said the governor's review does not include one-on-one meetings
with inmates and called Boyd's request “especially unworkable.”
The Republican governor has halted one execution since she took
office in 2017.
Huguley’s burned body was found Aug. 1, 1993, in a rural Talladega
County ball field.
Prosecutors said Boyd was one of four men who kidnapped Huguley the
prior evening. A prosecution witness at the trial testified as part
of a plea agreement and said that Boyd taped Huguley’s feet together
before another man doused him in gasoline and set him on fire.
Boyd’s attorneys said he was at a party on the night of the murder.
A jury convicted Boyd of capital murder during a kidnapping and
recommended by a vote of 10-2 that he receive a death sentence.
Shawn Ingram, the man prosecutors accused of pouring the gasoline
and then setting Huguley on fire, was also convicted of capital
murder and is also on Alabama’s death row.
Alabama last year began using nitrogen gas to carry out some
executions.
Boyd’s attorneys have urged the federal courts to halt the execution
to scrutinize the new method. A federal judge rejected the request.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday also declined a
request by Boyd’s attorneys to stay the execution.
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