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[Betty] Smithey, now 69, was granted parole by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency on Monday.
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Smithey was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
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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.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/betty-smithey-longest-serving-female-prison-inmate-released/story?id=17001914#.UCqV2M9es5Y
Everything I have seen from this Republican governor has been very conservative. Now this.
What does it mean to be sentenced to life without parole when you can get parole if you wait long enough?
nacl