The Execution Intervention Project placed a billboard in Montgomery in protest of the planned execution of Anthony Boyd, who brutally murdered a man in 1993.
Boyd and a group of men killed Gregory Huguley over $200 he owed them for drugs. According to court documents, the victim was kidnapped from Anniston, driven to Munford, taped to a park bench and set on fire.
More than three decades later, Alabama has set a death date for Boyd at the end of the month.
However, the national non-profit placed the sign in support of Boyd in Montgomery and plans to place another billboard in Talladega.
According to WBHM, Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office responded by saying, “There was no billboard campaign to save” Huguley.
“Boyd showed no concern for the ethics of execution when he helped murder Huguley. Only now that he has been sentenced to death for his horrific crime does Boyd protest that the State has no right to take a life — specifically his,” the office stated.
Boyd maintains his innocence. He is expected to be executed by nitrogen gas at William C. Holman Correctional Facility.
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