South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace delivered an uncompromising response Monday to the case of Lindsay Clancy, the admitted child killer whose Massachusetts jury failed to reach a verdict.
Mace said Clancy should receive the death penalty in a public execution, as reported [1] by The Gateway Pundit.
Her remarks followed weeks of uproar surrounding the deadlocked jury, the supporters cheering Clancy, and an attempted appeal to President Donald Trump for a pardon that he cannot legally grant.
Mace made clear that she had no interest in softening her position.
“Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” Mace told TMZ DC.
Mace then called for capital punishment and insisted that the sentence be carried out in public.
“She should get the death penalty. It should be public. It should be a public execution.”
When asked how the execution should be performed, Mace said the specific method did not matter much to her. She did, however, reject lethal injection as the chosen method.
“It could be by a firearm; it could be the electric chair. I don’t really care. Not an injection.”
Mace continued by calling Clancy a serial killer and arguing that a public punishment should serve as a warning.
Her answer left no ambiguity about how she views the deaths of Clancy’s three children.
“She’s a serial killer. She should get the electric chair. She should get the death penalty. It should be public. It should be a warning to women everywhere. You don’t kill your kids.”
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Nancy Mace is calling for Lindsay Clancy to be publicly executed … telling TMZ DC’s @jacob_wass [3] the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three children “should be dead too.” pic.twitter.com/HNQ1hnjytJ [4]
— TMZ (@TMZ) September 15, 2026 [5]
The South Carolina Republican later reinforced her position on X after the TMZ clip circulated. “100%. She murdered her kids. Lindsay Clancy doesn’t deserve to live.”
The explosive comments came as the aftermath of the jury deadlock continued to fuel controversy.
A group of Clancy supporters, described as a “pink mob,” has cheered the admitted child killer while anger has focused on the lone juror who would not look past the three dead children.
That holdout, identified as a Black man, has reportedly been smeared, doxxed, and pursued by fellow jurors and left-wing media.
A GiveSendGo campaign created for his security and legal defense has already collected more than $115,000.
Meanwhile, Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington appeared on Good Morning America last week and asked President Trump to pardon his client.
The extraordinary request ran directly into the basic problem that Clancy’s case is at the state level.
Trump noted that the matter is a state case, meaning the requested presidential pardon was not legally available. He also said Clancy “did a horrible, horrible thing.”
The president separately warned that “there’ll be a price.” Mace had an equally sharp description for Reddington’s pardon push, calling the stunt “nasty” and “ugly.”
Mace’s demand for a public execution placed her squarely against those attempting to excuse Clancy or rally around her after the jury deadlock.
Her words focused relentlessly on the three children who are dead and the punishment she believes their killer deserves.
The prosecution has not announced whether it will pursue a second trial.
Until that decision is made, the case remains unresolved while Clancy’s supporters, the targeted holdout juror, and Mace’s blunt demand for the death penalty continue drawing attention.