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Pamela Smart Has
Her Answer From Governor

May 29, 2025 5:40 PM CDT

Pamela Smart Has Her Answer From Governor

New Hampshire inmate won't receive a new hearing on her sentence in husband's killing

(Newser) - New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte rejected on Thursday the latest request for a sentence reduction hearing from Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990. On Wednesday, Smart wrote to Ayotte and the governor's Executive Council...

Pamela Smart: Yes, I'm Responsible for the Murder

34 Years Later, Pamela Smart
Accepts Blame for Murder

34 Years Later, Pamela Smart Accepts Blame for Murder

She is serving a life term in husband's slaying, hopes NH governor will commute her sentence

(Newser) - For three decades while serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, Pamela Smart maintained she had nothing to do with her husband's 1990 murder. That story has finally changed. In a video released Tuesday, Smart says she's learned to take responsibility for the killing through a...

Pamela Smart, Jailed in Infamous Murder Case, Asks for 'Hope'

Pamela Smart's
Quest for 'Hope' Falters

UPDATED

Mar 29, 2023 10:10 AM CDT

Pamela Smart's Quest for 'Hope' Falters

New Hampshire's highest court dismisses her petition

(Newser) - New Hampshire's highest court on Wednesday turned away the latest attempt to get a sentence reduction for Pamela Smart, who's serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage lover to have her husband killed in 1990. Having exhausted her judicial appeal options, Smart asked a state council...

Pamela Smart Seeks Freedom 31 Years After Husband's Death

Pamela Smart's Latest
Bid for Release Rejected

UPDATED

Mar 23, 2022 1:11 PM CDT

Pamela Smart's Latest Bid for Release Rejected

NH council voted 5-0 against granting her a commutation hearing

(Newser) - Update: New Hampshire's Executive Council has unanimously rejected Pamela Smart's request for a commutation hearing, 32 years after she recruited her 15-year-old lover to kill husband Gregg Smart, the AP reports. Smart, 54, is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Associate Attorney General Jeff Strelzin...

The Boys Who Killed Her Husband Are Free. She Isn't

29 Years Later,
Some Questioning
Pamela Smart's Sentence

longform

Jan 27, 2019 5:00 PM CST

29 Years Later, Some Questioning Pamela Smart's Sentence

The now-51-year-old remains behind bars

(Newser) - Four teenage boys were convicted in the 1990 murder of Gregg Smart, and as of 2015 , all four of them had been released. Smart's wife, Pamela, convicted of convincing the teens (one of whom was her lover) to kill him, remains behind bars. The now-51-year-old, who inspired the Nicole...

Teen Killer in
Pamela Smart
Case Goes Free

Jun 4, 2015 3:46 PM CDT

Teen Killer in Pamela Smart Case Goes Free

Billy Flynn killed his teacher's husband after she seduced him

(Newser) - Two teenagers who held a knife to Gregg Smart's neck and shot him in the head in 1990 have become free middle-aged men after serving a quarter-century in prison. William Flynn was the triggerman and Smart's lover. He was 16 and known as "Billy" when he and...

Killer in
Pamela Smart
Case of 1990s
Gets Parole

Mar 12, 2015 11:54 AM CDT

Killer in Pamela Smart Case of 1990s Gets Parole

William 'Billy' Flynn, now 41, killed his teacher's husband

(Newser) - The triggerman in the Pamela Smart murder trial was granted parole today, nearly 25 years after he killed his school instructor's husband and launched a global spectacle packed with lurid details of sex and manipulation. William Flynn was 16-year-old "Billy" in 1990 when he and three teenage friends...