The Houston Chronicle reports jurors took three hours Monday to agree on a death sentence for 24-year-old Travis James Mullis of Alvin in the death of his infant son, Alijah.
DNA tests presented during the penalty phase of his trial showed that Mullis sexually abused the child before killing him. Police in Philadelphia, to where Mullis had fled after the death, say he acknowledged stomping the child's skull to stop him from crying.
