- By Shivangi Sharma
- Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:01 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
A Texas man is scheduled to face execution Thursday for the killing of his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter, in a case authorities say stemmed from an alleged “exorcism” intended to drive out a demon. Blaine Milam, 35, was condemned for the December 2008 murder of Amora Carson at a trailer in Rusk County, East Texas.
Milam was set to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, coinciding with Alabama authorities’ planned execution of Geoffrey West for a 1997 gas station shooting. Milam was 18 years old when he and his ex-girlfriend, Jesseca Carson, tortured the baby for 30 hours. Prosecutors painted a gruesome picture of a victim whose girlhood was brutally crushed by Milam as she was hammered, bitten, strangled, and mutilated.
Horrific Injuries Confirmed
A forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy testified that the child had several skull fractures, broken arms, legs, and ribs and multiple bite wounds. There were so many injuries that it was not possible to pinpoint the cause of death.
While Milam maintains his innocence, blaming Jesseca Carson for the death and claiming she orchestrated the “possession” narrative, she was separately tried and sentenced to life without parole for her role in the murder. Both were teenagers at the time of the crime. Court records reveal Carson told investigators Milam said Amora was “possessed by a demon” because “God was tired of her lying to Milam.” Milam's lawyers have appealed to the US Supreme Court to stop the execution, arguing against the use of faulty evidence.
They claim that his conviction was based partially on discredited bite mark evidence and suspect DNA evidence, and assert that Milam is intellectually disabled and cannot be executed. The office of the Texas Attorney General responded that even without bite marks and DNA evidence, there is considerable evidence against Milam's innocence, such as his attempts to conceal evidence and a confession to a nurse after he was arrested.
The case has been noticed not just for its brutality but also because it concerns forensic techniques increasingly scrutinised by scientists. A 2016 report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology referred to bite mark analysis as "clearly scientifically unreliable at present."
