Susan Smith parole hearing after drowning kids [Video]

Susan Smith will face a parole board Wednesday, nearly 30 years after she was convicted of drowning her two young boys in a Union County lake. Smith, 53, is serving life in prison after a jury decided not to sentence her to death in her 1995 murder trial. Under the law at the time, she is eligible to ask to be released after serving 30 years in prison.Parole hearings are done virtually in South Carolina with the inmate joining by a video call from prison.Parole in South Carolina is only granted about 8% of the time and is less likely on an inmate’s first appearance before the board, in notorious cases or when prosecutors and the families of victims are opposed. Smith falls in all of those categories. “The jury believed she got a life sentence and that’s what she should serve,” said Tommy Pope, the lead prosecutor in Smith’s …