NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury has sentenced a woman to death for killing a pregnant woman to take her unborn daughter. Jurors returned with the sentence for 29-year-old Taylor Parker after deliberating for just over an hour, the Texarkana Gazette reported.
Parker was convicted on Oct. 3 of capital murder in the 2020 slaying of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock. Her baby was cut from her womb and did not survive. Her 3-year-old daughter was at home when her mother was killed on Oct. 9, 2020.
Later that morning, Parker claimed she’d just given birth after being pulled over by a state trooper for speeding and driving erratically. The baby, Braxlynn Sage Hancock, was pronounced dead at an Oklahoma hospital.
According to testimony from the trial, friends and family of Parker said that sh was desperate to have a baby in order to “keep her boyfriend” after suffering a miscarriage.
(Associated Press)
