Milam Sentenced To Death For Murder Of 13-Month-Old Child

Convicted child murderer Blaine Milam was sentenced to death late Thursday night in the slaying of 13-month-old Amora Carson.

As Judge Clay Gossett read the verdict, the jurors all had solemn faces. Milam stood with his attorneys surrounding him. His mother and sister sat behind him crying as each of the special issues jurors had to consider in the case was read and answered, resulting in the death penalty for Milam.

Milam was led from the courtroom in shackles as his mother and sister huddled together crying.

Earlier, Milam had sat in the courtroom for hours as the six-man, six-woman jury deliberated his fate less than 25 feet from where he waited with his defense team.

At 9:45 p.m., Judge Clay Gossett called the jurors in and told them he was sequestering them for the night after a long day of deliberations.

Several of the jurors looked at each other before the foreman spoke up and said if Gossett would give them 15 minutes, they would have made their decision.

"We were about to wrap it up when you called us," the foreman said.
Milam's girlfriend, Jessica Carson, the child's mother, is being held in the Rusk County Jail, awaiting her capital murder trial, slated for next year.

Milam and Ms. Carson have said they thought that demons possessed the child, who died during an exorcism.

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