In letter to newspaper, Susan Smith says she intended to kill herself, not 2 young sons
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A South Carolina mother sentenced to life in prison for killing her two young sons says she never planned to kill them and instead intended to end her own life.
In a letter to The State newspaper (http://bit.ly/1g4QgBa ), Smith writes that she loved 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex and had not planned to kill them.
Smith was convicted in 1995 of leaving her sons strapped in their car seats as she rolled her car into a Union County lake in the northwestern part of the state. A prosecutor sought the death penalty, but she was sentenced to life in prison.
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Smith told the newspaper she was distraught the night of the boys' deaths and had planned to kill herself first and leave behind a note.
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Information from: The State, http://www.thestate.com