BS BULLETIN:
- Rep. Nancy Mace says Lindsay Clancy should face a “public execution” for killing her three children.
- Mace suggested a firearm or electric chair and said the execution should serve as a warning.
- Clancy’s murder trial ended in a mistrial after 11 jurors favored finding her not guilty by reason of insanity and one juror held out.
Rep. Nancy Mace has made her feelings about Lindsay Clancy abundantly clear.
The South Carolina Republican told TMZ that Clancy should not merely be convicted for killing her three young children.
She wants her publicly executed.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Nancy Mace is calling for Lindsay Clancy to be publicly executed … telling TMZ DC’s @jacob_wass the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three children “should be dead too.” pic.twitter.com/HNQ1hnjytJ
— TMZ (@TMZ) September 15, 2026
“Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” Mace said.
Asked about punishment, Mace called for the death penalty before going considerably further.
She said it should be a “public execution” and suggested it could be carried out by firearm or electric chair.
“I don’t really care,” Mace said, although she specifically rejected lethal injection.
Mace then explained why she believes an execution should happen publicly.
“Be a warning to women everywhere, you don’t kill your kids,” she said.
The extraordinary comments come after Clancy’s closely watched Massachusetts murder trial ended in a mistrial Sept. 4.
Clancy admitted killing her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — but her attorneys argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Prosecutors argued Clancy understood what she was doing and planned the killings.
After six days of deliberations, 11 jurors were prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. One juror would not join them, leaving the panel deadlocked.
Mace has been one of Clancy’s most outspoken political critics.
During the trial, she attacked the crowds of predominantly female supporters outside the courthouse as a “pink mob” and claimed they wouldn’t be supporting Clancy if she were Black.
Her latest comments came as she also blasted defense attorney Kevin Reddington for publicly appealing to President Donald Trump for help.
Reddington asked Trump to consider a pardon and to use his influence with Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz.
Trump cannot pardon Clancy because this is a Massachusetts state prosecution, something Trump himself acknowledged when he responded to Reddington’s appeal over the weekend.
Mace called the pardon request a “publicity stunt.”
There is another rather large obstacle to her preferred punishment:
Massachusetts doesn’t have the death penalty.
Clancy, meanwhile, could still face another trial. Her defense is also pursuing a Rule 25 motion asking Judge William Sullivan to enter an acquittal following the hung jury.
That issue is expected back before the court Sept. 29.
MY QUICK TAKE:
Whatever side you’re on in the Lindsay Clancy case, “public execution” just moved this debate into an entirely different zip code.
And proposing a punishment Massachusetts doesn’t actually have is one heck of a way to enter it.
DBS WIRE SOURCES:
- Mediaite — Nancy Mace calls for Lindsay Clancy’s ‘public execution’
- TMZ — Nancy Mace interview on Lindsay Clancy
- People — How Lindsay Clancy could still be acquitted after hung jury
- People — Trump responds to Lindsay Clancy attorney’s plea
- CT Insider — Who has spoken out since the Lindsay Clancy mistrial?
