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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jeffrey Collins and Ariana Baio

‘30 years is not enough’: Susan Smith’s ex pleads for her to remain in prison for the murder of their kids

Susan Smith was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison in July 1995 for drowning her children in 1994 - (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who killed her two sons by rolling her car into a lake in 1994 and then falsely blamed a Black man, will ask a parole board for her freedom on Wednesday.

For the last 30 years, Smith, 53, has served a life sentence behind bars after a jury convicted her of murder for strapping her two young sons into the backseat of the car before putting it into a lake. Now that she’s hit the three-decade mark, she is eligible for a parole hearing every two years.

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