Do You Remember Susan Smith?

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Twenty years ago, Susan Smith pushed her car into a lake with her two children inside. The two small boys were strapped in their car seats and drowned. Smith made up a story about being car-jacked and the boys being taken with the car. A nation and a sobbing father pleaded on the television for the safe return of those precious babies. We didn't know the awful truth for several days. Now, Susan Smith wants to be paroled. She wants to get out of prison. She says that she wasn't herself that night, she wasn't functioning normally. She says she is "not the monster" people thinks she is. Personally, I think that if she was really not herself that night and that she is now fully aware of how terrible her deed was, that rather than protesting that she is not a monster, she would be openly admitting that her behavior was monstrous and be more about telling us how monstrously she behaved than she is about trying to tell us why she is really a good person underneath it all. This all sounds self-serving to me. Just as killing her two children twenty years so she could be with a man who didn't want any children was self-serving. I am not buying it. Are you? Should she be released from prison?