Representative Nancy Mace has said that Lindsay Clancy should face a public execution, days after a Massachusetts jury failed to reach a verdict on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three children. "Her children are dead, she should be dead too," the South Carolina Republican told TMZ on Monday. "She should get the death penalty...
It should be public, it should be a public execution." Mace's proposal could not be imposed on Clancy in Massachusetts, which has not carried out an execution since 1947 and its highest court struck down the state's capital punishment law in 1984. If convicted of first-degree murder, Clancy could instead be sentenced to life in prison without parole. The intervention comes after the judge in Clancy's murder trial declared a mistrial earlier this month after jurors reported that they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Clancy, 36, did not dispute killing her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in January 2023. She had pleaded not guilty, and her attorneys argued that she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time of the strangulation deaths and her attempted suicide. A retrial remains possible, but prosecutors have not yet announced a decision.
Mace is not the first elected official to demand capital punishment in response to the case. Georgia Republican Representative Clay Fuller said after the mistrial that when someone "brutally murder[s]" three children, "you deserve the death penalty." He also called for federal restrictions on the insanity defense. This is a developing story.
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