Final phrases of Texas demise row inmate for molesting, murdering child
A Texas man who admitted to stomping and strangling his own baby after he molested the three-month-old called his execution by lethal injection ‘assisted suicide’ in his final words.
Travis Mullis, 38, spoke his last words while strapped to a gurney in the death chamber in Huntsville, Texas, on Tuesday night.
After waiving his legal right to appeal his execution for the 2008 killing of his baby, Mullis said he ‘took the legal steps to expedite to include assisted suicide.’
‘I don’t regret this decision to legally expedite this process,’ he said in his last statement.
‘I do regret the decision to take the life of my son. It was my decision that put me here,’ the convicted killer added.
Mullis brutalized his own son, Alijiah, after trying to rape another child on Jan. 29, 2008, according to KPRC.
Travis Mullis, 38, pictured above in the most recent image available of him through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Alijah James Mullis seen here in a photo shared by his family on Facebook
At the time, Mullis, his girlfriend and newborn were living with a friend who had a daughter because they could not afford their own place.
In a police confession days after the killing, Mullis told police he tried to assault the 8-year-old at a playground.
‘I had asked her to take her pants off, she said, “No,”‘ Mullis confessed told investigators.
‘She started to cry, she got scared, I also got startled. I was upset about what I was doing. I knew that it was wrong. So, I told her, “Let’s just go home.”‘
Mullis told police he himself had been sexually abused as a child and thought he could get rid of the flashbacks if he ‘acted on them.’
Mullis told his girlfriend what had happened between him and the girl, and the couple feared they would get kicked out of the mobile home once her dad heard about it.
He said: ‘I’m guilty of what I did and the death penalty is the legally justified and, I believe morally, sentence for what I’ve done’ in 2018
Baby Alijah pictured with his mother
Claiming he was going for a drive to figure out next steps, Mullis went for a drive with this infant in Galveston.
The dad, then 21, claimed the baby woke up during the drive and began to cry uncontrollably.
‘I had hit my breaking point with stress, and I was, you know, scared,’ he told police.
‘I was panicking, I, you know, hit my breaking point and I broke at that point. I felt that the only way to make him stop crying was to kill him.’
Mullis strangled the baby and them stomped him to death.
While he didn’t confess to it, prosecutors said there was evidence he had molested the baby boy as well, before his dumping his body on the side of the road near the sea wall.
Mullis went on the run for three days before surrendering to the cops in Philadelphia.
Pictured above: the area where Alijah’s body was dumped in Galveston, Texas near the sea wall
Travis Mullis seen confessing to killing his son in a taped interview with police
In 2011, he was convicted and sentenced to death.
Seven years later, he filed a motion to waive his appeals and fire his attorney, hoping to expedite his execution.
‘I’m guilty of what I did and the death penalty is the legally justified and, I believe morally, sentence for what I’ve done. I’m ready to accept my punishment,’ he said during an interview at the time.Officials declared him dead at 7:01 p.m. CDT. No one his side or the baby’s mother witnessed the execution.
