Execution Date Set for Man Convicted in 1993 Anniston Kidnapping and Murder

Governor Kay Ivey has announced that the execution of Anthony Todd Boyd, convicted in a brutal Anniston kidnapping and murder more than 30 years ago, has been scheduled to take place beginning 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 23, 2025, and concluding no later than 6:00 a.m. on Friday, October 24, 2025. The execution will be carried out using nitrogen hypoxia, a method first employed in Alabama last year.

Boyd, now 55, was one of four men convicted in the July 31, 1993, killing of Gregory Huguley of Anniston. According to court records, Huguley was abducted at gunpoint off a city street after reportedly owing the men $200 for drugs.

The group forced Huguley into a van and transported him to the Munford area of Talladega County. There, they taped him to a park bench at a baseball field and set him on fire. Huguley’s body was discovered the following morning, a crime that shocked and horrified the Anniston community.

Since his conviction, Boyd has repeatedly challenged Alabama’s execution procedures. In 2017, he requested to be executed by hanging or firing squad rather than by lethal injection, arguing that the state’s standard method at the time would violate his constitutional rights. A federal appeals court rejected that claim.

With last year’s adoption of nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative method of capital punishment, Boyd will now be put to death under the newer protocol.

Governor Ivey formalized the execution time frame in a letter to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm, supported by an order from the Alabama Supreme Court.

Boyd’s scheduled execution closes another chapter in one of Anniston’s most notorious crimes, a case that has lingered in the city’s memory for more than three decades.

Execution Warrant (Anthony Boyd) GKI Letter to Commissioner John Hamm 08-18-2025