Pamela Smart denied chance at freedom decades after killing

By KATHY McCORMACK
Associated Press

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart has been denied a sentence reduction hearing more than 30 years after her sensational trial that inspired books and the Nicole Kidman movie “To Die For.” Smart was a high school employee when she was accused and eventually convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990. Smart’s request for a hearing was denied Wednesday in a 5-0 vote by a New Hampshire state council. It’s the third time the 54-year-old Smart has asked a council for a hearing.