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The former South Carolina prosecutor who successfully put Susan Smith behind bars for infamously killing her two young sons in 1994 by strapping them into their car seats and rolling the vehicle into a lake, says she needs to remain in prison.

Tommy Pope, who led the prosecution against Smith and who now serves in the state Legislature as a Republican, noted that she will once again be eligible for parole in 2026. She was denied in 2024.

"Susan, to me, needs to remain incarcerated as punishment for what she's done," Pope told Fox News Digital at CrimeCon in Denver on Sept. 6, noting that she may not pose a danger to society if she were released. "It's not like she's going to have two more kids and do the same thing, arguab

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