Blaine Milam
Blaine Keith Milam was an American convicted murderer who was executed in 2025 for the 2008 murder of Amora Carson, his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter.
Early life
Milam was born on December 12, 1989, in Gregg County, Texas.Murder of Amora Carson
On December 2, 2008, Milam, then 10 days shy of his 19th birthday, called the police to report that he had found his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter, Amora Carson, dead. At the time, Milam was engaged to Amora's mother, Jesseca Carson, and they were living in a trailer in Rusk County, Texas. Police arrived to find Amora's body with numerous severe injuries, including multiple bite marks and broken ribs. When questioned by police, both Milam and Carson initially said they had left Amora alone for about an hour before returning to find her dead. However, they later changed their stories, claiming that Amora had become possessed by demons, and that they had attempted to perform an exorcism on her.A subsequent autopsy indicated that Amora had been beaten, strangled, sexually mutilated, and had twenty-four human bitemarks covering her entire body in what the medical examiner called the worst case of brutality he had ever seen. In 2010, Milam was sentenced to death. After his conviction and death sentence, Milam continued to maintain his innocence, arguing that Carson was responsible for Amora's murder, and that she was responsible for claiming that Amora was possessed by demons. Milam's lawyers later attempted to challenge his death sentence, both on the grounds that it was based on discredited forensic bite mark analysis, and that Milam himself was intellectually disabled and thus could not be constitutionally executed. According to the state, it was Milam who inflicted the injuries on Amora while Carson watched and did not intervene. Carson was later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her role in the crime.