Extract the JSON data inside the array column in Dataframe in Pandas

Question

I am working on extracting JSON array column in dataframe in Python using Pandas Library, where I have a data like this

>df

id      partnerid   payments

5263    org1244     [{"sNo": 1, "amount":"1000"}, {"sNo": 2, "amount":"500"}]
5264    org1245     [{"sNo": 1, "amount":"2000"}, {"sNo": 2, "amount":"600"}]
5265    org1246     [{"sNo": 1, "amount":"3000"}, {"sNo": 2, "amount":"700"}]

I want to extract the JSON data inside the list and add it as a column in same dataframe like this

>mod_df

id      partnerid   sNo amount

5263    org1244     1   1000
5263    org1244     2   500
5264    org1245     1   2000
5264    org1245     2   600
5265    org1246     1   3000
5265    org1246     2   700

I have tried with this approach

import pandas as pd
import json as j

df = pd.read_parquet('sample.parquet')

js_loads = df['payments'].apply(j.loads)
js_list = list(js_loads)
j_data = j.dumps(js_list)
df = df.join(pd.read_json(j_data))
df = df.drop(columns=['payments'] , axis=1)

But this works, only if we have JSON data in column not list of JSON. Can someone explain, how can I achieve my desired output?