Pamela Smart admitted she was 'immature, selfish, and proud' in her latest clemency plea to get out of prison after being convicted for helping her then-15-year-old lover kill her husband.
Smart, 54, has spent more than half her life in prison since being convicted for conspiracy to commit murder, witness tampering and accomplice to first-degree murder in the 1990 killing of her husband Gregg Smart, 24, at their Derry, New Hampshire, home.
In her latest clemency plea, Smart said she was 'immature' when she blamed others for her husband's murder, which she helped orchestrate with her then-15-year-old lover William 'Billy' Flynn.
'It took years, even decades, for me to accept responsibility and I must carry that burden, alone and deservedly, for the rest of my life, recognizing that the pain and suffering I caused are irreparable,' she wrote in the letter her attorney Robert Juceam filed to the Attorney General's office.
'I blamed others for my incarceration because I was immature, selfish, and proud. I refused to see my own role in Gregg's death and instead referred blame elsewhere.
'This burden is something I can never - and should never - be free of,' she wrote to New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and the council, who rejected her last clemency bid in 2019 as has been done by governors multiple times on Smart's past requests.
Pamela Smart, 54, admitted she was 'immature, selfish, and proud' in her latest clemency plea after being imprisoned in a maximum-security facility in New York for more than half her life
She was convicted in 1991 of being an accomplice in her husband Gregg Smart's murder. In her clemency plea, she apologized to Gregg's and her own family and said she will carry the 'burden' of his death forever
At the time of her husband's death, she admitted to having an affair with Flynn, but denied any involvement in Gregg's death.
The couple had been married less than a year when the then-22-year-old Smart conspired to kill her husband.
She was convicted in 1991 by a jury in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, and is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at a
