Representative Nancy Mace said Lindsay Clancy should be publicly ex*cuted after the South Carolina Republican’s m*rder trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month.
“Her children are d*ad. She should be d*ad too,” Mace told TMZ.
Clancy, a former nurse, had been on trial for the k*llings of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, who were str*ngled with exercise bands at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. Her defense did not dispute that she k*lled the children but argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. Prosecutors argued she acted intentionally and was aware of her actions.
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 after the jury, made up of nine women and three men, reported it was deadlocked following roughly 38 hours of deliberations over seven days. Jurors had been split 11-1 in favor of acquitting Clancy by reason of insanity, with a single holdout juror refusing to join them.
Mace said she did not care how an ex*cution was carried out. “It could be by firearm, it could be electric chair. I don’t really care. Not an injection,” she said, adding that it should serve as a “warning to women everywhere, you don’t k*ll your kids.”
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has since asked President Donald Trump to pardon his client, despite Clancy facing state rather than federal charges. Trump has declined, calling the matter “very sad” but a “state situation.”
Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not said whether he will retry the case. A hearing is scheduled for November 2 on a defense motion to dismiss the charges entirely.
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