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BREAKING: Susan Smith, a South Carolina woman who admitted to drowning her two children 30 years ago, was unanimously denied parole after she appeared before the board for the first time on Wednesday. https://t.co/GJgxcHTNEB pic.twitter.com/ZuVk34ggWf
— ABC News (@ABC) November 20, 2024
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At a time of racial tensions when the country was captivated by the O.J. Simpson murder case, and in a highly conservative part of the Deep South, Smith initially said an armed Black man carjacked her and kidnapped her sons Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months.
Law enforcement agents and volunteers searched for them amid intense media attention as Smith pleaded for their return on national TV. After nine days, she confessed to killing the boys, setting off shockwaves. It was later revealed Smith, 23 at the time, was separated from her husband and was having a romance with a wealthy man, Tom Findlay, who wanted to end the relationship because she had children.
Ed: For those who weren't around at the time, it's tough to explain just how awful this crime was. Not only did Smith kill her own babies, not only did she throw them away to keep a boyfriend, she then blamed everything on a black man -- and kept that pretense up for more than a week while national news media tried to help find the children. It turned out that the car sunk into the water over a six-minute period, with her terrified children trapped as she watched from the shore. This is not a woman who should ever be allowed outside of confinement.
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Susan Smith, a South Carolina woman who admitted to killing her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons in 1994, speaks at her parole hearing.
— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) November 20, 2024
Smith had initially lied to police, saying a Black man carjacked her and kidnapped her sons. pic.twitter.com/oppN49EvWj
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The Susan Smith hearing is the perfect example of why the "abolish life without parole" crowd must be fought at every turn. Some people should never be free. But even more so, this family should never have been forced to live through this again. To fight, again, for justice for those two little boys. This entire hearing is an abomination, an affront to everything justice is supposed to be.
Ed: About a zillion times this. I watched part of the proceedings today, and the prosecutor on the case made clear that the jury likely didn't realize that "life in prison" didn't mean no parole. Otherwise, they likely would have voted to impose the death penalty. Put that together with her record of manipulation, fraud, and drug use while in prison, and it's unfathomable why the hearing took place at all.
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David Smith tells the South Carolina #parole board why 30 years is not enough time served for Susan Smith after she killed their young sons in 1994. Her parole was denied. https://t.co/5apOda85kt pic.twitter.com/rh3zz2O2pX
— WYFF News 4 (@wyffnews4) November 20, 2024
Ed: My heart breaks for David Smith. This is sheer torture, and the parole hearings will now come every two years no matter what.
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Susan Smith, who is serving a life sentence for the killings of her two sons in 1994, was convicted of a new disciplinary violation after a hearing in October.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections said Smith was talking to a documentary filmmaker on the phone about her crimes. ...
The violation is the first disciplinary sanction Smith has received in prison since 2015. She has previously been disciplined for drug use and sex with a prison guard.
Ed: So why wasn't her parole access suspended?
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Susan Smith DENIED parole: pic.twitter.com/f7q8Hgax2h
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) November 20, 2024
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Killer mom Susan Smith has a revolving door of jailhouse suitors — and many of them abruptly stop talking to her, leaving the convicted murderer bewildered about why she is being ghosted, jailhouse records obtained by The Post show. ...
All of the chats are recorded and entered into public record. A review of the logs shows that several of her lovers on the outside have abruptly stopped communicating with her.
Speaking to The Post, one of the men says that the final straw was seeing how many other men Smith was romantically speaking with.
Ed: She's running romance scams from behind bars. Sounds like a great prospect for rehabilitation, eh?
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Susan Smith, the mother convicted in 1994 of strapping her two young sons into the backseat of her car and rolling it into a South Carolina lake, is facing her first parole hearing. NewsNation’s @BrianEntin spoke with those who lived through it.
— NewsNation (@NewsNation) November 20, 2024
MORE: https://t.co/lWjoWa8U0C pic.twitter.com/nWFsmd70XO
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BREAKING: Jose Ibarra found guilty on all 10 counts in Laken Riley murder trial. pic.twitter.com/A3b3If5ZJ5
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 20, 2024
Killer of Laken Riley, illegal migrant Jose Ibarra, gets life in prison with no parole.#JoseIbarra #LakenRiley pic.twitter.com/Odjhi6SC6H
— The National Desk (@TND) November 20, 2024
Ed: Life in prison had better mean what it says in this case. The judge didn't take any chances, though; he made all of the sentences consecutive rather than concurrent.
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