CONCORD — Gov. Kelly Ayotte has ruled out granting Pamela Smart a hearing to consider commuting her life sentence for her role in her husband's murder. Smart has been imprisoned since 1991 after ...

Pamela Smart was at the center of one of the most high-profile crime stories of the 1990s after her husband, Gregg Smart, was slain at the hands of a boy with whom she was in a sexual relationship.

FILE - Pamela Smart answers questions from the defense in her murder conspiracy trial, March 18, 1991, in Rockingham County Superior Court in Exeter, N.H. (AP Photo/Jon Pierre Lasseigne, File) CONCORD ...

Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped ...

Gov. Kelly Ayotte says Pamela Smart’s latest effort to commute her life sentence for orchestrating her husband’s murder 35 years ago “is not deserving of a hearing before the Executive Council.” ...

Nashua native Kelly Ayotte has always been tough on crime. When she took the state’s corner office in January, I knew Pamela Smart wouldn’t stand a chance for a pardon hearing (more on that below). In ...

Pamela Smart is once again asking the governor and Executive Council to commute her life sentence for orchestrating her husband’s murder 35 years ago. Smart, 57, has spent more than half her life in ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte rejected on Thursday the latest request for a sentence reduction hearing from Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the ...

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte rejected on Thursday the latest request for a sentence reduction hearing from Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder ...