Travis James Mullis was sentenced to death in 2011 for killing his 3-month-old son in Galveston. He is set to become the fourth person executed in Texas this year.
Thirteen years after being convicted and sentenced to death for killing his 3-month-old son Alijah, Travis James Mullis is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville on Tuesday., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.Texas is set to execute Travis James Mullis on Tuesday, a Brazoria County man who sexually assaulted, strangled and stomped on his infant son’s head until he died in 2008.
That leaves Mullis on track to become the fourth person executed by the state of Texas this year. Two more executions in the Lone Star State are scheduled for 2024. The prosecution focused on Mullis’ history of violence and argued that the threat he posed could not be mitigated by treatment or incarceration. And Mullis’ written and videotaped confession of killing his son, according to court documents, “provided nearly indefensible grounds for conviction.”
But over the course of the next decade, Mullis reinstated and revoked his appeals several more times, saying he had lied during his competency evaluation and was motivated to give up his appeals by mental illness, suicidal thoughts and “an irrational fear” of spending the rest of his life in prison.
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