Susan Smith to ask parole board for her freedom after serving 30 years for drowning her children
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In an image taken from Court TV pool video, Susan Smith is seen testifying via video on Wednesday Nov. 20, 2024, at a South Carolina parole hearing on her life sentence for murder in the deaths of her two young sons 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Walter Ratliff, Pool)In an image taken from Court TV pool video, Susan Smith is seen testifying via video on Wednesday Nov. 20, 2024, at a South Carolina parole hearing on her life sentence for murder in the deaths of her two young sons 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Walter Ratliff, Pool)Former solicitor Tommy Pope, right, speaks during a press conference after a parole hearing for convicted murderer Susan Smith in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/David Yeazell)FILE - In a July 9, 1995 file photo, visitors walk down the ramp where Alex and Michael Smith were drowned in a car in 1994 in Union, S.C., by their mother, Susan Smith. (AP Photo/Lou Krasky, File)David Smith stands with a photo of his two boys as he walks to a press conference after a parole hearing for convicted murderer Susan Smith in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/David Yeazell)Susan and David Smith address reporters Nov. 2, 1994 during a news conference in Union, S.C. They pleaded for the safe return of their sons, 14-month-old Alex, and Michael, 3, who had been missing since an alleged car-jack-kidnapping over a week earlier. (AP photo/Mary Ann Chastain)FILE - The grave of Michael and Alex Smith at the Bogansville Methodist Church in West Springs, S.C., July 23, 1995. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson, file)David Smith, center, waits to speak at a press conference following a parole hearing for convicted murderer Susan Smith in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/David Yeazell)In an image taken from Court TV pool video, Susan Smith is seen testifying via video on Wednesday Nov. 20, 2024, at a South Carolina parole hearing on her life sentence for murder in the deaths of her two young sons 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Walter Ratliff, Pool)This May 24, 2021 mage provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Susan Smith. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)In an image taken from Court TV pool video, Susan Smith is seen testifying via video on Wednesday Nov. 20, 2024, at a South Carolina parole hearing on her life sentence for murder in the deaths of her two young sons 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Walter Ratliff, Pool)Former solicitor Tommy Pope, center, right, speaks during a press conference after a parole hearing for convicted murderer Susan Smith in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/David Yeazell)
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In an image taken from Court TV pool video, Susan Smith is seen testifying via video on Wednesday Nov. 20, 2024, at a South Carolina parole hearing on her life sentence for murder in the deaths of her two young sons 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Walter Ratliff, Pool)