Taylor Parker denied final Death Row meal after what Texas inmate did with huge banquet request

Taylor Parker, who killed a pregnant woman and attempted to abduct her unborn child, has been denied her final Death Row meal all thanks to the actions of one Texas inmate.

New Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct has resurfaced the heinous crimes committed by 33-year-old Taylor Parker, after she stabbed Reagan Simmons Hancock, a mom-of-one who was eight-months pregnant, more than 100 times to remove her unborn baby from her womb in 2020.

This came after Parker, a mom-of-two, faked her own pregnancy, hoodwinking even her family and partner at the time for nine months.

A judge concluded that her crimes were elaborately premeditated, and that she had been plotting for months to find a real baby to claim as her own.

After being convicted of capital murder in 2022, Parker is now one of six women in Texas on death row.

Taylor Parker was given the death sentence after she murdered Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn child (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)

But unlike many other death row inmates in America, Parker will not be allowed a final meal before her execution - the date of which is yet to be confirmed - after one former inmate ruined the privilege.

Why aren't Death Row inmates in Texas allowed a chosen final meal?

Lawrence Russell Brewer, a white supremacist, was jailed in the late 1990s along with three other men for murdering James Byrd Jr., who they brutally dragged for three miles along a road after tying him to a pick-up truck.

According to a report from the Houston Chronicle, Brewer asked for a banquet to mark his final meal on earth, which included chicken steaks, fried okra with ketchup, and a cheese omelette with ground beef, jalapenos and bell peppers.

In 2011, before being executed, Lawrence Russell Brewer refused to eat his enormous final meal order (Getty Stock Image)

He also requested a 'triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, three fajitas, one pound of barbecue and a half loaf of white bread, pizza meat lover's special, one pint of 'homemade vanilla' Blue Bell ice cream, one slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts and three root beers'.

While officers did their best to supply the enormous food buffet, when it was presented to the inmate, he went on to simply claim he wasn't hungry - he didn't eat even a morsel.

Brewer was executed by lethal injection as planned in September 2011.

Following his refusal, Texas senator John Whitmire ended the 87-year-old tradition of the chosen final meal, meaning from that day forward, nobody on death row in Texas would get their 'special meal'.

A date has not been set for Parker's execution, but one thing is for sure - the last thing she eats won't be a decision she makes.