Alabama is preparing to execute a man by nitrogen gas for the 1993 murder of a man who was set on fire over a drug debt.

A jury convicted Anthony Boyd of capital murder for the 1993 burning death of Gregory Huguley in Talladega County.

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...