Betty C. SMITHEY |
Betty Smithey
Smithey in 1959 with Mitchell Johnson, who she kidnapped from an
employer four years
before murdering
another baby. The parole board
said she was no longer a threat.
Betty Smithey
Betty Smithey
Betty Smithey
In this photo taken Monday Aug. 13, 2012, Betty Smithey, the
country's longest-serving
female inmate,
reacts with Donna Leone Hamm on left, a Director of Middle Ground
Reform, after the Arizona's Board
of Executive Clemency in Goodyear, Ariz., released
her with 49 years
served for a 1963 murder.
(AP Photo/The Republic, Nick Oza)
In this photo taken Monday Aug. 13, 2012, Betty Smithey listens to Donna Leone
Hamm,
a Director of Middle
Ground Reform, on left, and her attorney
Andy Silverman asking
Arizona's Board of Executive Clemency
in
Goodyear, Ariz., to let her out after 49
years served for a 1963
murder.
(AP Photo/The
Republic, Nick Oza)
In this photo taken Monday Aug. 13, 2012, Betty Smithey listens to Donna Leone
Hamm,
a Director of Middle
Ground Reform, on left, and her attorney
Andy Silverman asking
Arizona's Board of Executive Clemency
in
Goodyear, Ariz., to let her out after 49
years served for a 1963
murder.
(AP Photo/The
Republic, Nick Oza)
In this photo taken Monday Aug. 13, 2012, Betty Smithey listens
with her attorney Andy
Silverman and Donna
Leone Hamm, a Director of Middle Ground Reform, as her niece,
Rebecca Henderson, speaks to the
Arizona's Board of Executive Clemency in Goodyear, Ariz.
(AP Photo/The Republic, Nick Oza)
In this photo taken Monday Aug. 13, 2012, Betty Smithey reacts as her niece Rebecca
Henderson and her
nephew Kenneth Wilson, on left, Rebecca's brother,
gives her hug
after the Arizona's Board of
Executive Clemency in
Goodyear, Ariz., released her
after 49 years served for a 1963
murder.
(AP Photo/The
Republic, Nick Oza)
In this photo taken Monday Aug. 13, 2012, Betty Smithey listens to Donna Leone
Hamm, a
Director of Middle
Ground Reform, on left, and her attorney
Andy Silverman asking Arizona's
Board of Executive Clemency
in
Goodyear, Ariz., to let her out after 49 years served for
a 1963
murder.
(AP Photo/The
Republic, Nick Oza)
In this photo taken Monday Aug. 13, 2012, Betty Smithey thanks Jack LaSota one of
the
Arizona's Board of
Executive Clemency members to let her out
after 49 years served
for a 1963 murder, in Goodyear, Ariz.
(AP Photo/The Republic,
Nick Oza)
Betty Smithey
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