Mace calls for public execution of Clancy after mistrial

U.S. Representative Nancy Mace called for the public execution of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother whose murder trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month. In an interview on Monday, the South Carolina Republican stated Clancy "should be dead too" and advocated for a death penalty carried out publicly. "Her children are dead, she should be dead too," Mace said. "She should get the death penalty. It should be public. It should be a public execution." When asked what such an execution would entail, Mace replied, "It could be by a firearm, it could be electric chair, I don't really care. Not an injection." She added, "She's a serial killer. It should be a warning to women everywhere you don't kill your kids." Mace's comments followed a request from Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, for President Donald Trump to pardon his client. Reddington argued Clancy should not be held criminally responsible for strangling her three children in January 2023, citing her diagnosis of postpartum psychosis. Mace dismissed the pardon request as a "nasty and ugly publicity stunt," noting that a federal pardon would not apply to state charges.