US lawmaker calls for public execution of Lindsay Clancy

Nancy Mace has argued there can be no excuse for killing three children and that the punishment should serve as a “warning to women everywhere” US Congresswoman Nancy Mace has called for the public execution of Lindsay Clancy, wading into an increasingly bitter national debate over the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children.Clancy, a former nurse, admitted to strangling five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan at the family home in 2023 before attempting suicide. However, her lawyers have argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was therefore not criminally responsible. Her trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.“Her children are dead, she should be dead too,” Mace told TMZ on Monday, adding that Clancy deserved the death penalty and that it should be carried out publicly.“It could be by firearm, it could [be] electric chair, I don’t really care,” the Republican lawmaker said, arguing that the execution would serve as a “warning to women everywhere” not to kill their children. The case has sharply divided public opinion. Prosecutors have argued that Clancy carefu...