Posted on 09/24/2024 9:35:48 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
Secondly, Smith wants to argue that she was not in her right mind as a young mom — and that she may have suffered from undiagnosed mental illness.
She was a 22-year-old mom when she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina, with her boys — 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander — still strapped into their car seats.
It’s an argument Smith has used before. “I am not the monster society thinks I am,” she wrote in a letter from jail to reporters at The State in 2015.
“Something went very wrong that night. I was not myself. There was no motive as it was not even a planned event. I was not in my right mind.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
She wants to live her life..that’s an opportunity she NEVER gave to her two precious boys when she drowned them in that car, still alive, clutching onto each other knowing they were going to die
Recall that Andrea Yates, who drown her five kids, murder conviction was reversed. She was then sent to a mental institution. It is likely that Susan Smith was insane at the time of the terrible incident.
Why couldn’t she let the kids live their lives?
So... No she may not.
You didn’t let your children live THEIR lives.
“Killer mom Susan Smith will argue she should be paroled because she’s been (mostly) well behaved: ‘Just let me live my life’”
Sure, let her live her life ... for the 30 seconds before the euthanasia drugs take effect.
Her audacity!!!
She may be sane but you can’t fix stupid.
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She has served 30 years.
That is probably more time than most USA murderers serve.
On one hand, her crime was shockingly cruel and heartless, and many jurors would have voted for the death penalty.
On the other hand, would her now grown up two children demand that their own mother die in prison?
And, the unknown wild card - is she still dangerous?
Democrats in many states want to give Susan Smith the legal right to do what she did to her children.
When do the two boys get to “live their lives.” Rot biatch.
I do. Still makes me mad.
Kill your kids? Hung by the neck until dead.
If you were actually insane at the time and sane now, that is exactly what you would want. And deserve.
If you are still insane, fine. You won't care. And it is still what you deserve.
And if you are like these Yate and Smith, evil people, you STILL deserve to be hung by the neck until dead.
To the whiny pants who want to babble about "forgiveness" only the people you have offended can forgive you. That would be the dead kids. Let's arranged a meeting as fast as possible.
It does not matter if the children she murdered would not want her to die in prison, the People of South Carolina provided justice for her children, and they gave her life in prison.
Typical chick: “Murdered people??? BUT THAT WAS LAST WEEK!!!” GET OVER IT!!!”
She came from a poor home and had a fling while married to the son of the rich town big-wig. Well, the guy got tired of her and was ready to move on, but instead of telling her she was just a bit of fun, he told her that he would marry her if she didn't already have children and his family would never accept her because of that.
It was clear to me that because of that conversation (actually I think he wrote it in a break-up letter to her) she made a choice between a future with him over the life of her children.
Parole her. Daycare worker.
Yes. It strikes me as true that Smith was having a psychotic episode when she killed her kids. The males in her life certainly failed her.
No.
Not only no, but Hell no.
Not only Hell no, but HELL NAW!..................
She seemed like she was in her right mind when she was on TV begging for the return of her children.
No, no parole.
They were recovered seated next to each other tightly holding each other’s hands as they met Jesus. Amen.
Poor thing, she must have felt she didn’t have a choice to let the kids live either.
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>“I was a victim,” she told a friend on the outside in 2023, according to documents obtained by The Post. “I had sex with them both because I didn’t feel like I had a choice.”
>However, she has had several infractions — including in 2010 and 2015 — for having narcotics or marijuana behind bars.
>But, the father of the kids she murdered plans to strongly contest her bid for parole.
>“I’m going to remind them what she did and who the victims were in this case,” David Smith said. “Certainly not her.”
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