(NewsNation) — Two state governments are slated to simultaneously execute inmates Thursday, one of them by the relatively new method of nitrogen gas.

The death penalties are expected to be administered at 6 p.m. Central for convicted murderers Blaine Milam in Texas and Geoffrey Todd West in Alabama.

Milam, 35, will receive a lethal injection for the December 2008 torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter, Amora Carson, during what the couple claimed was an “exorcism” to rid the child of a demon in Rusk County. The toddler’s mother, Jesseca Bain Carson, received life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Milam and Carson initially told authorities they had gone to a pawn shop and found the child dead when they returned to their trailer. Milam previously was granted

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