Overview

• Milam is scheduled for lethal injection this evening in Huntsville, with an emergency stay request pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Prosecutors say 13-month-old Amora Carson endured a 30-hour ordeal involving hammer blows, strangulation, mutilation, and dozens of bite marks.
• Then-girlfriend Jesseca Carson was convicted in a separate trial of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole after the pair described the killing as an exorcism.
• The defense cites a 2016 federal science panel that called bite-mark analysis unreliable and argues Milam is intellectually disabled and maintains his innocence.
• The Texas parole board denied clemency on Tuesday and lower courts refused stays, while the attorney general points to DNA findings, a post-arrest confession to a nurse, and evidence-hiding; if carried out, this would be Texas’ fifth execution of 2025.