Alabama to execute seventh man using controversial nitrogen gas method

Anthony Boyd, 54, scheduled to go to death chamber on Thursday evening for 1995 murder he deniesAlabama is preparing to put to death its seventh prisoner under the contested method of nitrogen gas, a form of suffocation which defense lawyers have described as cruel and unusual punishment.Anthony Boyd, 54, is scheduled to go to the death chamber at Holman prison on Thursday evening. Barring a last-minute intervention, he will be put on a gurney and forced to breathe nitrogen through an industrial mask, fatally depriving him of oxygen. Continue reading...