Anthony Boyd, 54, earlier lost his appeal to be executed by firing squad by the state of Alabama.
The US state of Alabama has executed a man convicted in a 1993 killing, using nitrogen gas, a controversial method of execution that has been described by critics as a “cruel and unusual form of punishment.”
Anthony Boyd, 54, was executed on Thursday evening in the United States for killing a man by setting him on fire over a $200 drug debt
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