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Texas Executes Blaine Milam in 2008 'Exorcism' Killing After Supreme Court Rejects Final Appeal

The execution followed years of failed challenges over bite‑mark forensics, DNA reliability, 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, 35, was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. CT by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court denied his final petitions hours before the execution after earlier rejections in state and federal courts and a clemency denial by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
  • Prosecutors said 13‑month‑old Amora Carson suffered a 30‑hour assault involving blunt‑force trauma, strangulation, biting and mutilation; an autopsy documented multiple skull fractures, broken bones and numerous bite marks.
  • Milam maintained innocence and blamed then‑girlfriend Jesseca Carson, who was convicted separately of capital murder and is serving life without parole.
  • Defense appeals challenged bite‑mark and DNA evidence and alleged intellectual disability, while the Texas Attorney General cited DNA findings, efforts to hide evidence and a post‑arrest confession; the execution was Texas’s fifth this year as nationwide executions reached 33 after a separate Alabama case.