Overview

• Milam, 35, was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. CDT after a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
• Prosecutors said the toddler was beaten, bitten, strangled and mutilated over roughly 30 hours, with an autopsy documenting multiple skull fractures and numerous broken bones.
• Defense filings challenged bite‑mark and DNA evidence and argued Milam is intellectually disabled, but courts rejected those claims as the Texas attorney general’s office said DNA still ties him to the victim.
• Evidence cited in court records included a pipe wrench, efforts to conceal evidence and a confession to a nurse after Milam’s arrest.
• The execution was Texas’s fifth this year and one of two in the U.S. that evening, bringing the national total to 33 after Alabama executed Geoffrey West with nitrogen gas.