The first woman from Bowie County to be sentenced to die by lethal injection for her crimes, Taylor Rene Parker, was denied an appeal attempt and a new trial by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas last week. The ruling to deny was a unanimous decision by the court in Austin.
It was Parker’s first attempt at a new trial following the guilty verdict and death sentence she received from a Bowie County jury for the murder and kidnapping of New Boston’s Reagan Hancock and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Hancock back in 2020.
In October 2022, a sixman, six-woman Bowie County jury took just less than an hour to convict Parker of the capital murder of Reagan Hancock and the kidnapping of her Braxlynn. The jury had listened to testimony on the tragic crimes committed by Parker during a weeklong trial before the jury rendered its verdict and sentence.
