CONCORD, N.H. (AP) –

The woman convicted of orchestrating the state’s most notorious murder has no chance at a pardon hearing when the governor and council review her request today.

“My guess is that the votes won’t be there to hold a hearing, and if they were, Governor Lynch made it quite clear he’ll just say two words, I negate,”‘ Bath Councilor Raymond Burton said Tuesday.

Gov. John Lynch and the Executive Council are not moved by letters from Pamela Smart, her family and friends proclaiming her innocence and pleading for her release. Smart is serving life without parole in Bedford Hills, N.Y., for recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to murder her husband in 1990.

“She’s where she belongs,” said Manchester Councilor Raymond Wieczorek. “When you don’t even hardly acknowledge that you committed a major crime, that’s pretty sad.”

In a letter submitted with her pardon petition, Smart says her only regret was an affair with William Flynn, whom she met while working as a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School. Flynn, then 16, confessed to recruiting friends to help murder Gregory Smart because of pressure from Pam, who threatened to end their relationship if he didn’t.

“I have already lost my husband and 14 years of my life for a crime I never committed,” Smart wrote in the letter dated last December. “I am asking for a commutation of sentence because I am innocent. I never wanted, nor asked, anyone to kill Gregg.”

Smart blamed her affair with Flynn on feelings of inadequacy and low self esteem after learning her husband, whom she “loved beyond words,” had been unfaithful. “His flattery and attentions temporarily lifted my spirits,” she wrote of Flynn, a virgin when they met. Smart insists she was framed for a crime of passion Flynn committed after she ended the affair.

“Facing probable life sentences, they devised a plan to blame the murder on me in exchange for plea bargains,” according to the letter.

Smart’s pardon petition, like preceding failed appeals, asserts intense media coverage tainted her trial.

“The governor and council are not supposed to be another court,” said Hopkinton Councilor Peter Spaulding. “If a defendant feels that they didn’t get a fair trial or there was too much publicity, there are other avenues that they have.”

Smart’s lawyer, Greg Adamski, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The pardon petition includes letters from Smart’s parents and former father-in-law. “Pamela’s unfair trial and unjust conviction will forever be a blight on the New Hampshire judicial system,” reads a November, 2004 letter from Linda and John Wojas. “Our family has suffered immensely over the past fourteen years.”

William Smart said he also has suffered from his former daughter-in-law’s continued fight to be freed.

“I wish for my life to heal this open wound and live in peace during my own last years of my life. If she continues to plea for pardons, then I will continue to plea for a denial,” he wrote.