A Texas death row inmate who was executed via lethal injection on Thursday issued a final plea to those watching.
Blaine Milam, 35, had been on death row for the 2008 killing of his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter, Amora Rose, in what the couple said was part of an ‘exorcism’ to expel a demon from the child.
At the time, Milam blamed his then-girlfriend Jesseca Carson for the killing and argued that she was the one who claimed the child was possessed by a demon.
Carson told investigators that Milam told her that the child was ‘possessed’ by a demon’ because ‘God was tired of her lying' to Milam.
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She was tried separately and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of capital murder for her role in the crime.
The pair of them were 18 at the time.
Milam was executed via lethal injection, and the process began at 6.19pm CDT with the inmate pronounced dead by 6.40pm.
According to AP, during the procedure, Milam began snoring quietly and grunted and gasped once. Eventually, all sounds and movement stopped.
From the death chamber gurney, Milam’s final words were a call to action to anyone who would hear it.
He said: “If any of you would like to see me again, I implore all of you no matter who you are to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and we will meet again. I love you all. Bring me home, Jesus.”
Prosecutors said that Miliam had savagely beaten the 13-month-old child in a torturous ordeal and claimed he strangled and mutilated her over a period of 30 hours.
A forensic pathologist, who performed an autopsy on the child, highlighted the many injuries the child had.
They said she had multiple skull fractures along with broken arms, legs, ribs and numerous bite marks. However, they were unable to determine a specific cause of death due to the fact the child had so many potentially fatal injuries.
Rusk County District Attorney Micheal Jimerson witnessed the execution. He said: “We will never know what Amora would have contributed to our world. Answering the call for justice for the most helpless is a measure of a civilized people.”
Milam was the fifth person put to death in Texas this year and his execution was carried out hours after the US Supreme Court rejected Milam’s final appeals.
Gerrard Kaonga