US EditionNew Hampshire Governor Rejects Hearing for Pamela Smart, Sentenced to Life for Husband’s 1990 Death
- On Thursday, New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte denied Pamela Smart’s latest petition seeking a hearing to reduce her life sentence for masterminding the 1990 murder of her husband in Derry.
- Smart, then a 22-year-old high school media coordinator, had an affair with a 15-year-old student who fatally shot her husband after she allegedly asked for the killing to avoid divorce loss.
- Smart was convicted in 1991 of conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes, serving life without parole, while the teenage shooter served 25 years and was freed in 2015.
- Ayotte, a Republican and former state attorney general, stated that after reviewing the case, she believes individuals involved in serious violent offenses need to face legal consequences and therefore declined to grant Smart a hearing.
- Smart, now 57, has accepted responsibility and emphasized 35 years of rehabilitation in a letter apologizing to both families but the governor insists pardons are for exceptional circumstances only.
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New Hampshire governor rejects hearing for Pamela Smart, sentenced to life for husband’s 1990 death - The Boston Globe
Smart was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later fatally shot her husband in Derry, N.H.
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Gov. rejects sentence reduction hearing for Pamela Smart
New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte has rejected the latest request for a sentence reduction hearing from Pamela Smart. The 57-year-old is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990. Smart was…
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