Mace Wants a Public Execution, Then Calls Juror Criticism a 'Lynching'
On September 14, 2026, Nancy Mace told TMZ she wanted Lindsay Clancy 'publicly executed' as a 'warning to women everywhere.' About a week later, on the September 23 episode of her podcast Get Maced, Mace called criticism of the holdout juror in that same case 'a modern day lynching' and claimed Democrats founded the KKK. The Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865 by former Confederate veterans.
"This is a modern day lynching."
Rep. Nancy Mace, on her podcast Get Maced, September 23, 2026 [19:53].
On September 14, 2026, Nancy Mace told TMZ she wanted a defendant "publicly executed" and said that execution should serve as "a warning to women everywhere." About a week later, on the September 23 episode of her podcast Get Maced, Mace returned to the same case and reached for a very different word. Criticism of the holdout juror, she said, is "a modern day lynching." The quotes are hers, nine days apart, and this dispatch sets them side by side.
What Mace said on September 23
On the September 23, 2026 episode of Get Maced, at the 19:53 mark, Mace addressed the deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy case and framed criticism of the holdout juror this way:
"It was Democrats that started the KKK, and now Democrats are figuratively lynching... This is a modern day lynching."
Rep. Nancy Mace, Get Maced, September 23, 2026 [19:53]. The ellipsis omits her reference to the individual juror. We do not repeat identifying detail about any juror.
Source: Nancy Mace, "Get Maced," September 23, 2026. Full episode on YouTube; the quoted line is at 19:53.
The receipt: nine days earlier
On September 14, 2026, TMZ reported Mace's own words about the very same case. She did not reach for restraint then. Mace said she wanted the defendant, Lindsay Clancy, "publicly executed," and framed that execution as "a warning to women everywhere."
So the sequence, in her own words, is this. On September 14, a "public execution" as "a warning to women everywhere." On September 23, criticism of a juror in that same case is "a modern day lynching." Nine days apart.
The fact check
Two claims in the September 23 clip do not hold up.
Mace said Democrats "started the KKK." The Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865 by former Confederate veterans, not by the Democratic Party (PolitiFact, 2018).
And "lynching" is not a loose figure of speech. It names a documented history of more than 4,400 racial-terror murders in the United States, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.
A note on the case
The Lindsay Clancy case is unadjudicated. The jury deadlocked 11 to 1, and the court declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026. A retrial has not been decided. Maceopedia takes no position on the defendant's guilt or innocence and offers no view on the merits of the case. This dispatch is about Nancy Mace's own public words and the double standard in them, nothing more. We do not name, picture, or describe any juror.
The words are hers, from the public record, nine days apart. On September 14, 2026, Nancy Mace said she wanted a defendant "publicly executed" as "a warning to women everywhere." On September 23, 2026, she called criticism of a juror in that same case "a modern day lynching," and she claimed Democrats founded the KKK. Readers can watch and judge.
Sources & related coverage: Nancy Mace, "Get Maced," September 23, 2026 (YouTube), quoted line at 19:53 · TMZ, September 14, 2026 (Mace "publicly executed" remark) · PolitiFact, 2018 (KKK founding fact check) · Equal Justice Initiative, "Lynching in America" (more than 4,400 documented racial-terror murders) | Nancy Mace wiki · People index
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