HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man faces execution Thursday evening for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the child’s body.

Blaine Milam , 35, was condemned for the December 2008 murder of Amora Carson at his trailer in Rusk County in East Texas.

Milam was scheduled to receive a lethal injection starting after 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. Also Thursday evening, authorities in Alabama were planning to execute Geoffrey West for fatally shooting a gas station employee during a 1997 robbery.

Prison officials said Milam appeared anxious and said he had a headache when he arrived early Thursday afternoon at the Huntsville Unit prison and was placed in a small holdin

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