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| Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by dramaticspeak(m): 12:55pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
[img]http://3.bp..com/-59lEMDCYe9o/UCyan9x-suI/AAAAAAAAZLg/g-XTJ9w8kl8/s640/1.jpg[/img] For the past 49 years, Betty Smithey has woken up in a prison cell, the nation's longest serving female inmate. But on Aug 14 she was waking up a free woman. Smithey, now 69, was granted parole by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency on Monday. She was released from the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, walking with a cane. "It's wonderful driving down the road and not seeing any barbed wire," Smithey told the Arizona Republic. "I am lucky, so very lucky”. At age 20, Smithey was convicted in the 1963 New Year's Day murder of Sandy Gerberick, a 15-month-old girl she had been babysitting. Smithey was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. According to Arizona law at the time she was sentenced, only the governor could grant her clemency. She tried, appealing to then-governors Fyfe Symington and Janet Napolitano, but was denied until Jan Brewer, the current governor, agreed to lower her sentence to 48 years to life. Smithey will live with her niece in Mesa, Ariz. Smithey has battled breast cancer and "a myriad of other health issues", said her attorney, Andy Silverman. "She's absolutely not a threat to society. She's almost 70 years old now", Silverman said. "She's done a lot of reflection. Forty-nine years in prison, you think a lot about what you've been through”. [img]http://2.bp..com/-8n8gjD45yaY/UCyaqESX5dI/AAAAAAAAZLk/KhaPHQu95U0/s1600/2.jpg[/img] |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by Chanchit: 1:13pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
What a wasted life... They should'nt have let her go, they could have jst give her free passage to go around town and come back home "the prison" as a free prisoner... |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by echobee(f): 1:47pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
what a wasted life |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by r231(m): 5:04pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
:wow |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by Idowuogbo(f): 5:05pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
Chanchit: What a wasted life... They should'nt have let her go, they could have jst give her free passage to go around town and come back home "the prison" as a free prisoner...u so mean!!!! lmfaoo... |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by ayobase(m): 5:12pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
Writing a book in her name will go a long way for her when she's dead....that will be her legacy. Else, na wasted life all the way! |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by Etaki: 5:36pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
She really enjoyed her life. No problems, No Work, just sitting down and playing with her thoughts... S.M.H |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by Idowuogbo(f): 6:06pm On Aug 16, 2012 |
Etaki: She really enjoyed her life. No problems, No Work, just sitting down and playing with her thoughts... S.M.Hi don die o! kai! enjoy ke? LWTMB!!!!  |
| Re: Us Longest-serving Female Inmate Freed After 49 Years by panafrican(m): 12:22am On Aug 19, 2012 |
scary ! |
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