The penalty phase is well underway in the Taylor Parker capital murder trial, and as ADA Kelley Crisp promised in opening statements, it does in fact, get worse.

Jurors heard from a Titus Regional Medical Center neurologist who testified that Parker was angry with him when he told her there was no evidence she’d had a stroke and that she did not meet the criteria for a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Under cross examination, however, the doctor did say that he could not rule out the possibility t...