US EditionTexas man facing execution for fatally beating 13-month-old girl during ‘exorcism’
Blaine Milam was the fifth person executed in Texas in 2025 after appeals citing intellectual disability and disputed forensic evidence were denied by courts.
- A Texas man, Blaine Milam, is facing execution for murdering his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter, Amora Carson, during a brutal 30-hour 'exorcism.'
- Milam was convicted for brutally beating and mutilating Amora, which resulted in multiple skull fractures and broken bones.
- His execution has faced delays, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the sentence, and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his clemency request.
- While Milam claims his innocence and blames his then-girlfriend, Jesseca Carson, for the crime, evidence including a confession has been cited against him.
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The man was convicted of the death of his then-partner's daughter, in a case described by prosecutors as one of the state's most heinous crimes.
The state of Texas will execute Blaine Milam on Thursday for killing the 13-month-old daughter of her ex-girlfriend. The man tortured the little girl to death while she was allegedly "exorcism" to expel the demon from her body. After being convicted for the murder of the girl, named Amora Carson, she will be given a lethal injection this Thursday at Huntsville State Penitentiary. The events occurred in December 2008 at her motor home, located in…
Texas man set to be executed for 2008 ‘exorcism’ death of 13-month-old girl
A Texas man was set to be executed Thursday in the 2008 death of his then-fiancée’s 13-month-old daughter in a supposed exorcism. Blaine Milam, 35, was 18 when he and his partner Jesseca Carson called 911 regarding her daughter, Amora. Police arrived to find the toddler’s mutilated body beaten with a hammer and covered in bite marks, with signs of sexual assault and strangulation, the most gruesome crime scene they said they’d ever witnessed. An…
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