Former Titans scout Blaise Taylor receives consecutive life sentences

A judge ruled against former Arkansas State football player and Tennessee Titans scout Blaise Taylor on Wednesday. A series of life sentences In the year In 2023, after he was found guilty of poisoning his pregnant girlfriend, he killed her and their unborn child.

Taylor pleaded not guilty in June. He was sentenced to One count of second degree murder, one count of first degree murder and two counts of first degree criminal homicide. February 25, 2023 Prosecutors argue that Taylor poisoned his girlfriend Jade Benning with a dangerous dose of cocaine when Benning was five months pregnant. The unborn fetus died two days later on February 27, and Benning died of acute cocaine poisoning on March 6, her 25th birthday.

In Wednesday’s ruling, Nashville Assistant District Attorney Jan Norman Taylor noted that Taylor received 87 character witness letters: “The person described in these character letters, the authors themselves, not one mentions Judd Benning, not one mentions Baby Ivy, and not one of the 87 letters says anything about what Blaise Taylor did.”

Taylor was a defensive lineman at Arkansas State from 2014 to 2017, serving as a team captain and earning first-team All-Sun Belt honors. He later worked in the Titans’ scouting department until 2023, when he left to join Utah State as a senior defensive analyst. He spent a year with USU, then was hired as a defensive analyst at Texas A&M, but was fired less than a week after the hiring was announced.