- Representative Nancy Mace stated that Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman who killed her three children, deserves the death penalty and should face a public execution.
- Her defense team argued that their client was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she carried out the January 2023 killings of her children, who were aged between 5 years old and 8 months old. Clancy's high-profile murder trial recently ended in a mistrial after an 11-1 majority jury vote favored acquittal by reason of insanity caused by postpartum psychosis.
- Mace dismissed attempts by Clancy's defense attorney to seek intervention from President Donald Trump, calling the plea a publicity stunt. “Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” Mace said on Monday, clarifying, “She should get the death penalty.” The Republican continued: “It should be public. It should be a public execution.”
- President Donald Trump distanced himself from the case, clarifying that the matter is a state situation rather than a federal one.
- Clancy remains held in a psychiatric facility while awaiting her next court hearing scheduled for September 29.
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