Nancy Mace calls for public execution of Lindsay Clancy

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Monday that Lindsay Clancy should be publicly executed, as the Massachusetts woman faces a new trial for allegedly murdering her three children.

“Her children are dead, she should be dead too,” Mace told TMZ .

The South Carolina Republican later said, “She should get the death penalty. It should be public, it should be a public execution,” adding Clancy “deserves nothing less” than such a punishment.

“It could be by firearm, it could electric chair, I don’t really care,” the outgoing lawmaker added, later saying it would serve as a “warning to women everywhere [that] you don’t kill your kids.”

Judge William Sullivan, who is overseeing the case, declared a mistrial earlier this month. That came after the jury, composed of nine women and three men, told him they were unable to come to a unanimous decision after seven days of deliberation and five weeks of testimony.

Prior to Sullivan declaring a mistrial, the jurors said they had an 11-1 majority in favor of acquittal by reason of insanity due to postpartum psychosis, with one holdout .

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz (R) has not said whether he will retry the case. A court hearing on the case is scheduled for Sept. 29 at Plymouth Superior Court, with Clancy being held at a psychiatric facility until then.

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has asked President Trump for a pardon — despite the president not having the authority to do so, as Clancy is facing state, and not federal, charges.

After Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4, Trump called the situation “a horrible tragedy.”

The president told reporters, “Look, [Clancy] did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse, but you’ll find out what the price to pay is. There’ll be a price. It’s going to be [a] mental institution or jail or something, but I guess they’re going to go through another trial. It’s too bad.”