Executive Councilor Joseph Kenney said Ayotte controls the agenda for the council. He said her predecessor Chris Sununu ...

New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte has rejected the latest request for a sentence reduction hearing from Pamela Smart.

Pamela Smart is once again trying to get the attention of New Hampshire lawmakers to commute her sentence. Smart was ...

Gov. Kelly Ayotte said Thursday she will not give Pamela Smart a pardon hearing before New Hampshire's Executive Council.

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 ...

The state's Executive Council will consider next week Pamela Smart's latest effort to commute her life sentence for orchestrating her husband's murder 35 years ago. Smart, 57, has spent more than half ...

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.” ...

Gov. Kelly Ayotte said Thursday she will not give Pamela Smart a pardon hearing before New Hampshire's Executive Council.