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Supreme Court Denies Stay for Blaine Milam as Texas Execution Set to Proceed Tonight

The ruling leaves no remaining legal barrier after failed challenges to bite-mark forensics and claims of intellectual disability.

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This undated booking photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Blaine Milam. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order mandating the death penalty in the District of Columbia in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, also known as the "Walls Unit,” near downtown Huntsville, on Aug. 16, 2022.

Overview

  • Milam is scheduled to receive a lethal injection this evening in Huntsville for the 2008 killing of 13-month-old Amora Carson in Rusk County.
  • Prosecutors said the toddler was beaten with a hammer, bitten, strangled and mutilated over roughly 30 hours, with an autopsy noting multiple skull fractures and numerous other injuries.
  • Defense filings to the U.S. Supreme Court argued the conviction relied on discredited bite-mark analysis, questioned DNA evidence and asserted Milam is intellectually disabled.
  • Texas officials said courts have already rejected the disability claim, a recent DNA review still ties Milam to the victim, and other evidence includes efforts to hide evidence and a post-arrest confession to a nurse.
  • The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency earlier this week, and previous execution dates in 2019 and 2021 were stayed during appeals; this would be Texas’ fifth execution of 2025.