Nestled near some trees alongside a busy roadway in Montgomery, a stark black-and-white billboard looms over a parking lot. It says “Save Anthony Boyd,” referencing the 54-year-old Alabama man who could be executed later this month.
It’s part of a new campaign aiming to call attention to Boyd’s case, in which death penalty opponents are in the position of fighting to spare the life of one of their own.
“That’s why we put this billboard up. We want people to drive by, to think, you know, who is Anthony Boyd?” said Rev. Jeff Hood, Boyd’s spiritual advisor and founder of the Execution Intervention Project…