Execution Watch 1/15/2019

On Tuesday night, the State of Texas will take another life…

BLAINE MILAM. Was he in drug-induced psychosis when a child died during a so-called exorcism Mr. Milam was involved in? That’s what his lawyers say, but they have yet to convince a court that he shouldn’t be put to death, and that’s what the state intends to do. The appellate attorneys raised claims of prosecutorial misconduct, as well as bad lawyering. They said his trial attorneys failed to present evidence of Mr. Milam’s meth habit and his drug-altered state of mind at the time of the slaying. The information might have led to a lesser sentence. Mr. Milam’s girlfriend, the mother of the victim, is serving a sentence of life without parole.

See: “Rusk County man convicted in 2008 beating death of infant gets execution date,” Longview News-Journal, 9/12/2018