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The Bowie County jury previously found Parker guilty of capital murder.
Prosecutor Kelley Crisp told jurors that the evidence would show Parker, 29, faked a pregnancy and repeatedly lied before killing Simmons-Hancock, 21, at the woman’s New Boston home on October 3, 2020, to get the infant she claimed to have been carrying.
The child died on October 9 in a hospital in nearby Idabel, Oklahoma.
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Parker’s attorneys hope to persuade the jury to spare Parker’s life and let her serve life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Defence attorney Jeff Harrelson said they would show that Parker was mentally ill.
