Execution Scheduled Tonight for Anthony Boyd in Brutal 1993 Anniston Murder Case
Atmore, Ala. — Governor Kay Ivey has announced that the execution of Anthony Todd Boyd, convicted in one of Anniston’s most notorious murders, is scheduled to take place beginning at 12:00 a.m. Friday, October 24, 2025, at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. The execution window opens at midnight Thursday and will conclude no later than 6:00 a.m. Friday.
Boyd, now 55, was one of four men convicted in the July 31, 1993, kidnapping and murder of 26-year-old Gregory Huguley of Anniston. According to court records, Huguley was abducted at gunpoint from an Anniston street after reportedly owing the men $200 for cocaine.
The group forced Huguley into a van and drove him to the Munford area of Talladega County, where they taped him to a park bench at a baseball field, doused him with gasoline, and set him on fire. His burned body was discovered the next morning, a crime that stunned and horrified the Anniston community.
Boyd was convicted of capital murder during a kidnapping and sentenced to death after a Talladega County jury voted 10-2 to recommend the death penalty. Prosecutors described the killing as deliberate and exceptionally cruel, motivated by a small drug debt.
The execution will be carried out using nitrogen hypoxia, a method first employed in Alabama last year. The procedure involves replacing breathable air with pure nitrogen gas through a face mask, causing death from lack of oxygen.
Boyd’s attorneys have challenged Alabama’s execution procedures for years. In 2017, he requested to be executed by hanging or firing squad instead of lethal injection, arguing the state’s standard method violated his constitutional rights. That claim was rejected by a federal appeals court. More recently, his legal team argued that nitrogen hypoxia is unconstitutionally cruel, but those appeals were also denied.
Governor Ivey formalized the execution schedule in a letter to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm, supported by an order from the Alabama Supreme Court.
If carried out tonight, Boyd’s execution will mark the sixth time Alabama has used nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment — and the seventh such execution nationwide, including one in Louisiana.
The scheduled execution will close another chapter in a case that has haunted Anniston and Talladega County for more than three decades.
