26 September 2025 :
September 25, 2025 - Texas. Blaine Milam, 35, White, was executed on September 25
Milam was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening, September 25, and pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, which is also known as the "Walls Unit.”
Milam was sentence to death in November 2010 for the December 2008 killing of Amora Carson, his then-fiancée’s 13-month-old daughter, in what prosecutors described as a brutal, 30-hour "exorcism" attempting to expel a demon from the body of the infant.
The forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy found the child had multiple skull fractures along with broken arms, legs, ribs and numerous bite marks. The pathologist testified at trial that he could not determine a specific cause of death because the girl had so many potentially fatal injuries.
Milam and the girl’s mother, Jesseca Carson, called police to their trailer home in Rusk County, where authorities found the little girl dead. The two initially gave police different reasons for the toddler’s death, including that they had left the home and found her injured, that she had eaten insulation and later that they had performed an exorcism on the child.
Milam, who had left school after 4th grade, claimed he was innocent, blaming Jesseca Carson for the killing and alleging she was the one who claimed the girl was possessed by a demon. She was tried separately from Milam and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Both were 18 at the time of the murder.
In his final statement, the now 35-year-old thanked those who supported him while he was on death row and the TDCJ chaplains for helping him find religion.
Milam’s appeals in the years since his conviction largely focused on his potential exemption from the death penalty due to intellectual disability and since-discredited bite-mark science used during his trial.
Milam received two stays on his execution in 2019 and 2021 to have appeals heard, but all eventually failed as he was ruled mentally fit for execution. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously declined to grant Milam clemency on September 23.
On September 25 the U.S. Supreme Court denied Milam's application for a stay of execution. The application claimed “demonstrably unreliable and prejudicial forensic evidence” was used because prosecutors could not justify a motive for Milam to have killed the toddler, as well as new understanding of bite-mark science and updates to DNA testimony.
Milam's death marks the fifth execution in Texas this year (the same number of executions as 2024) and the 595th since Texas resumed executions in 1982.
Milam’s is the 33rd execution of the year in the US, and the n° 1640 overall since the nation resumed executions in 1977.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/texas-execution-blaine-milam/
