New Hampshire governor rejects hearing for Pamela Smart, sentenced to life for husband's 1990 death
CONCORD, N.H. — 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.
Smart, 57, 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, Gregory Smart, in Derry. The shooter was freed in 2015 after serving a 25-year sentence. Though Smart denied knowledge of the plot, she was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and other crimes and sentenced to life without parole.
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