By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 19:34:57 | Updated at 2024-11-22 18:48:35
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Killer mom Susan Smith denied parole after she sobbed, begged to be let out — but still refused to accept responsibility for all her crimes
NY Post ^ | 11/20/2024 | Steve Helling
Posted on 11/20/2024 10:35:20 AM PST by DFG
Killer mom Susan Smith has been denied parole by a unanimous vote after she sobbed and begged to be let out of prison on Wednesday.
Smith apologized for drowning her two young sons 30 years and and said she wished she could take it back.
But, true to form, she still refused to take full responsibility for her actions — blaming her recent conviction for trying to cash in on her infamy from prison on the documentary maker she was communicating with.
“I trusted the wrong person,” Smith said, referring to the filmmaker — but omitting the fact that she had asked the filmmaker for cash for her story.
She also claimed that previous convictions for misconduct behind bars were not her fault.
Attending the meeting remotely via Zoom, Smith, 53, told the board that she had lost touch with reality when she killed her sons, Alex and Michael, by strapping them in their car seats and letting them drown in a South Carolina lake.
“I am a Christian and I know that God has forgiven me,” Smith told the board, before begging the parole board to “show the same kind of mercy.”
As Smith wiped her tears with a tissue, she acknowledged the pain she had caused. “I want to say how very sorry I am,” she said.
Smith’s attorney told the board that the prosecution was wrong about her alleged motive. “This is a mental health story,” he said. “This was not about another man. She was mentally ill.”
The only other people who were present to support Smith were her pastor and his wife.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: smith; susan; susansmith
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1 posted on 11/20/2024 10:35:20 AM PST by DFG
To: DFG
Maybe the Democrats can run her in 2028. Planned Parenthood should love her.
2 posted on 11/20/2024 10:38:21 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: DFG
I thought I read that she recently had said, (paraphrasing) “It was a long time ago. Get over it”.
3 posted on 11/20/2024 10:39:52 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
To: DFG
She was mentally ill.
Clearly. And Life w/o parole is her punishment.
4 posted on 11/20/2024 10:39:52 AM PST by 1Old Pro
To: DFG
Shouldn’t have done it in SC, Susie. California would have let you out long ago.
To: DFG
But abortionists get away with killing a baby who survives an abortion; I’m not condoning what she did, but just saying.
6 posted on 11/20/2024 10:44:34 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
To: 1Old Pro
She was still coherent enough to plan the murders. Not buying the mentally ill thing at all.
7 posted on 11/20/2024 10:44:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DFG
While the Bible is always quoted as saying vengeance should be left to the lord, I wonder if Ms Smith ever read this one?
Leviticus 24:17
17 “ ‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.“
8 posted on 11/20/2024 10:44:47 AM PST by Phoenix8
To: mikey_hates_everything
Shouldn’t have done it in SC, Susie. California would have let you out long ago.
California would let her poop on the streets when she got out too...
9 posted on 11/20/2024 10:49:31 AM PST by GOPJ (We need to call trans what they really are: Men Pretending to be Women. Cancel culture's dead. )
To: DFG
susan smith should have been executed decades ago ... period ...
10 posted on 11/20/2024 10:52:29 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
To: DFG
How dispicable do you have to be to drown your small children?
11 posted on 11/20/2024 10:54:17 AM PST by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
To: catnipman
Frankly, I’m surprised she hasn’t been shivved in prison, for trying to pin the murders on a black guy.
12 posted on 11/20/2024 10:56:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DFG
Without repentance there can be no salvation.
13 posted on 11/20/2024 10:59:13 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
To: mikey_hates_everything
California would have let you out long ago.
I know it's really fun and fashionable to hate on California because of our liberals here, but no we wouldn't have. She'd still be serving her life sentence here along with the rest of our double murderers.
14 posted on 11/20/2024 10:59:47 AM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
To: DFG
Susan shouldn’t be unhappy. The guards are servicing her.
15 posted on 11/20/2024 11:01:56 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
To: Flaming Conservative
she did say “ just let me live my life”
16 posted on 11/20/2024 11:03:58 AM PST by ronniesgal ( he's back, baby!)
To: DFG
She should live to 110 with all of her mental faculties.
17 posted on 11/20/2024 11:05:03 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: DFG
This woman is the poster child for public hanging....
18 posted on 11/20/2024 11:16:23 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
To: DFG
19 posted on 11/20/2024 11:18:54 AM PST by shotgun
To: dfwgator
Me too...................
20 posted on 11/20/2024 11:23:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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