Netflix's Maternal Instinct has brought the spotlight back to one of the most harrowing murder cases in recent Texas history. Taylor Rene Parker, who murdered her friend and unborn baby, is one of the few women on Texas Death Row. She is one of 47 women on death row in the United States, according to the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.
Here are 10 shocking cases of women on death row in the US:
- Kimberly Cargill, Texas woman who killed her son's babysitter, Cherry Walker.
- Taylor Parker, woman who killed her friend and unborn baby, Reagan Simmons-Hancock and Braxlynn Sage Hancock.
- Christa Pike, woman who killed her fellow Job Corps trainee, Colleen Slemmer.
- Wendi Andriano, woman convicted in Arizona of poisoning her terminally ill husband, Joseph.
- Sammantha Allen, woman convicted in Arizona for the murder of her cousin, Ame Deal.
- Maria Alfaro, woman who stabbed Autumn Wallace, 15, in a burglary in California.
- Tanya Nelson, woman convicted in California of murdering a fortune teller, Ha Smith.
- Lorraine Hunter, California woman who shot her husband to death.
- Tina Brown, Florida woman who murdered a teenage mother, Audreanna Zimmerman.
- Virginia Caudill, Kentucky woman who beat an elderly woman to death, Lonetta White.
