Overview

• Milam is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville for the 2008 killing of 13-month-old Amora Carson.
• The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied commutation this week, and the Fifth Circuit rejected a last-minute stay.
• A pending Supreme Court petition argues the conviction relied on now-discredited bite-mark analysis, contested DNA results, and that Milam is intellectually disabled.
• The state says courts have rejected the disability claim and that a DNA reexamination still ties Milam to the victim, citing additional evidence including a post-arrest confession to a nurse and efforts to hide evidence.
• Prosecutors described a 30-hour ordeal involving beating, biting, strangulation, and mutilation; Milam’s then-girlfriend, Jesseca Carson, was convicted separately and is serving life without parole.