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.”
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I remember that..she should have been executed a long time ago, the fact that she is still breathing our air is disgusting
(maybe not /s)
‘Just let me live my life’ ...
Parole board says: okay, but only after your kids get to live their lives.
And New York serial killer Robert Garrow was declared by specialists to be unable to walk, due to having been shot during his apprehension. "Experts" determined that he had to be confined to a wheelchair. He managed to get himself transferred to the Elderly and Handicapped Unit (minimum security) at Fishkill Prison, and ended up escaping in 1978 with a pistol that his son Danny had smuggled in piece by piece in containers of KFC. He scaled a 15 foot fence to escape, and 3 days later was tracked down by Correctional Officers. When he shot and hit one of the officers in the leg, he was shot to death by another officer.
I'm trying to point out that evil people can manipulate the system, can feign insanity or physical disability, and can fool so-called experts. This woman should already be dead.
Why would anyone go to prison if not for the drug and sex infractions?
Lifelong pet peeve of mine-—the killers make a quick choice to kill a victim. Sociopaths don’t care despite human nature of victims to plead for their minds to change and spare the victims’ lives. Psychopaths like the whole murder thing.
And others make a quick judgment and later hear from lawyers “I could have gotten you off if you hadn’t killed the last two at the scene.” “Yeah, I see now I wish I hadn’t screwed that up. Too late now.”
The enablers, especially religious ones, cause more killings as some criminals are let go on technicalities, and others are emboldened by seeing the soft on crime policies.
BUT.....
Due to misguided organized religion, especially but not limited to Reform Jews and Catholics, being weepily, childishly merciful to the killers, the laws have been changed to allow years and years of prison life for the cons, not the proper death penalty. Pumping iron, playing basketball, watching TV, griping about the food variety for years or decades.
The victims are dead.
Their loved ones and friends grieve for them.
This system is wrong.
Up until 1810, the method of execution in the Papal States was beheading by axe, hanging or mallet until they added the new French guillotine in 1816.
Bugatti was given a monthly pension of 30 Italian scudi, excellent compensation for the time.
His blood stained executioner’s clothes, axes, and guillotines remain on display today at the Criminology museum at the Oratory of the Banner building in Central Rome.
no. you should have given your sons to your ex-husband, and then everybody would go on to live their lives.
Keep her in the slammer!
As a fellow South Carolinian, FU, lady. If you were a man you would be on death row where you belong.
Isn’t this murderer in a coffin as yet?
Yeah when Pres. Harris signs the pardon.
Let you live your life? Like you let your precious babies live theirs?
Her sentence should have been the same fate as those two poor little boys.
Exactly.
I saw an interview with the father of those precious babies and he still gets emotional just talking about it. That woman didn’t deserve to be a mother and I hope they keep her in jail the rest of her miserable life!!!!
“I think it’s time,” she told one of her jailhouse suitors earlier this year. “I’ve paid my debt. I deserve to be released. I’m no longer a danger to anyone. Just let me live my life.”
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Lady, your debt can never be repaid. Millions of people think you should have been thrown into the wood chipper the night you drowned your boys! And, they will think the same thing of the parole board members that may release you to kill again.
“…Just let me live my life…”
Hon, you are…
Didn’t she say at first that a black guy kidnapped them? The Left might not like her very much either.
Free Republic has spoken Susan. I tried to plead insanity for you. Sorry, no parole for you.
If I were you, I’d befriend Alex Murdaugh who is in the same prison. His wife didn’t understand him either. He gets 10k a month in his commissary account. I bet you two would make a great match. Conjugal visits and all.
Forgiveness is always on the table and should be encouraged but that does not limit the consequences for your actions.
People against the death penalty never take into account some nitwit judge releasing the murderer.
“I think her chances for parole are zero to none.”
I remember this crime. It was entirely SHOCKING to me at the time; I’m much more jaded, now. :(
She needs to continue to be locked up for the rest of her natural days for what she did to those innocent babies, Postpartum Depression or not. MANY women suffer from this and they don’t kill their toddlers!
Now throttling your teenagers I TOTALLY understand, LOL! ;)
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