Texas Execution Delayed

Austin (AP) – A Texas appeals court has delayed what would have been the first execution scheduled in the state this year. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Friday granted a stay for 31 year old Blaine Milam to review claims he is intellectually disabled. Milam had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13 month old daughter during what the couple said was part of an “exorcism” in 2008 in Rusk County in East Texas. Milam’s attorneys say three of four experts who examined him determined Milam is intellectually disabled. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2002 barred states from executing the intellectually disabled.