RUSK COUNTY, Texas — A death row inmate from East Texas is scheduled to be executed this week for his role in the December 2008 killing of a toddler in Rusk County.

Blaine Keith Milam, 35, has his execution scheduled for Sep. 25 by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Milam was sentenced to death for the December 2008 killing of 13-month-old Amora Bain Carson.

Milam was previously granted two stays of execution— one in January 2019 , the other in January 2021 .

Milam, a registered sex offender, was convicted by a Montgomery County jury of capital murder and sentenced to death in May 2010. Jesseca Bain Carson, Amora's mother and Milam's ex-fiance, received life in prison without the possibility of parole when she was found guilty of capital murder in April 2011.

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