COLUMBIA, S.C.—Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two sons by rolling her car into a lake in 1994 with the boys strapped in their seats inside, will ask a parole board for her freedom on Wednesday.
Smith, 53, is serving a life sentence after a jury convicted her of murder but decided not to sentence her to death. Under state law at the time, she is eligible for a parole hearing every two years now that she has spent 30 years behind bars.
Smith will make her case for freedom to the seven-member parole board by video link from prison. Then she will go offline, and her ex-husband and father of the children, as well as the prosecutor at her murder trial, will argue that she remain incarcerated….