United States Rep. Nancy Mace said Lindsay Clancy should be “publicly executed” after her trial for killing her three kids ended with a hung jury.
Mace, 48, made the comments while discussing Clancy’s case and her attorney Kevin Reddington’s push to have the murder charges against her resolved without having to go to another trial.
The South Carolina congresswoman told TMZ on Monday, September 14, that Clancy, 36, should be publicly executed for killing her kids, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in January 2023. “Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” she said.
“She should get the death penalty,” Mace told the outlet before adding that it should be a “public execution.”
The Republican politician went on to say that Clancy “deserved nothing less” than the death penalty because she killed her kids. “It could be by firearm, it could be electric chair. I don’t really care. Not an injection,” Mace said of how she would like the execution to happen.
After calling Clancy a “serial killer,” Mace doubled down that the execution should be “public.”
“Be a warning to women everywhere, you don’t kill your kids,” she said.
“Look at the crime we have in this country. If people can get away with murdering children, what else can they do?” she continued. “There are no rules, there are no laws.”
Earlier in the conversation, Mace slammed Reddington for asking President Donald Trump to pardon Clancy shortly after the trial.
“He knows as an attorney in the state of Massachusetts, you can’t ask for a federal pardon for a state case,” she said. “It doesn’t take a lawyer to figure that out.”
After saying she thought the request was a “publicity stunt,” Mace said it was “nasty” and “ugly” for Reddington to ask Trump, 80, for the pardon.
“He wants sympathy for his client being in a wheelchair. Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” Mace said.
Following a seven-week trial, Clancy’s murder case ended in a mistrial on September 4 after the jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict.
Throughout the trial, her defense argued that she should not be held criminally responsible for killing her kids because she was dealing with postpartum mental health struggles at the time. Meanwhile, the prosecution argued that Clancy was aware of what she was doing when she killed her kids and attempted to die by suicide soon after.
The prosecution has not yet announced whether they plan to bring the case back to trial.
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