Entries tagged with “Blaine Milam

Nov 03, 2025

New Documents Reveal Texas Has Spent More Than $775,000 on Lethal Injection Drugs Since October 2024 — But Many Other Details Remain Secret

Documents reviewed by *NBC News* in response to a pub­lic records request reveal that since October 2024 Texas has spent more than $775,000 to acquire pen­to­bar­bi­tal, the drug used in the state’s lethal injec­tion exe­cu­tion pro­to­col. During the same time frame, the state has car­ried out 6 exe­cu­tions. The records show that in September 2024, the state obtained 20 one-gram vials of pen­to­bar­bi­tal and an addi­tion­al eight 2.5‑gram vials in February 2025. Per the state’s protocol,…

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Aug 02, 2020

NEWS BRIEF — Federal Government, Texas Set New Execution Dates

As July 2020 came to a close, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment issued two more notices of exe­cu­tion and a coun­ty judge in Texas report­ed­ly issued a new death war­rant for a death-row pris­on­er whose pre­vi­ous­ly scheduled execution…

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Jan 11, 2019

Texas Prisoner Seeks Stay of Execution on Claims of Junk Science, Arbitrary Sentencing

[UPDATE: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of exe­cu­tion to Blaine Milam on January 14, 2019] As Texas pre­pares to exe­cute Blaine Milam (pic­tured) on January 15, 2019, Milam’s lawyers say his con­vic­tion and sen­tence rest on dis­cred­it­ed bite-mark tes­ti­mo­ny and have asked for the execution…