'My Comments Have Generated Attention': Nancy Mace Was Named in the Lindsay Clancy Case in Open Court, Then Posted Again the Next Morning
A timeline, in Nancy Mace's own dated public words. A South Carolina member of Congress called publicly and repeatedly for Lindsay Clancy to be executed in a Massachusetts murder case in which she has no official role. On September 29, 2026, Clancy's defense attorney named Mace from the well of a Plymouth Superior Court. That night, on her own show, Mace said 'my comments have generated attention.' The next morning she posted a new video about the case. Clancy is charged, not convicted; her first trial ended in a mistrial and her defense is postpartum psychosis. Nothing here is a finding about her guilt, and nothing here assigns Mace a motive. The words are hers, in order. Readers can draw their own conclusions.
"My comments have generated attention."
That is Rep. Nancy Mace, in her own words, on her Get MACED show on the night of Tuesday, September 29, 2026, a few hours after a defense attorney said her name out loud in a Massachusetts murder case. The next morning she posted a new video and said it all again.
This dispatch is a timeline. Every line in it is Mace's own dated, public statement, or a plain fact from the court record. We draw no conclusion about why she said any of it, and we take no position on the Clancy case. Her words are below, in order, so you can read them yourself.
The courtroom moment in this timeline was carried by TMZ (AP courtroom pool) and covered by ABC News 4 in Charleston. The primary artifacts at the end of the timeline are Mace's own: her YouTube episode and her X post.
The timeline, in her own words
Monday, September 14, 2026. Stopped by TMZ in Washington, Mace said of Lindsay Clancy: "Her children are dead, she should be dead too." Newsweek reported that Mace said the death penalty "should be public, it should be a public execution," and that the method did not matter to her: "by firearm, it could be electric chair, I don't really care."
Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Two days later, on official letterhead, Mace did not walk it back. In a press release from her House office headlined "Rep. Nancy Mace Fires Back at Lindsay Clancy Attorney, Doubles Down on Death Penalty," she wrote in her own name: "Lindsay Clancy needs to face the death penalty, and it needs to be public."
Tuesday, September 29, 2026, in court. At a status conference before Judge William Sullivan in Plymouth Superior Court, Clancy's veteran defense attorney Kevin Reddington named Mace from the well of the court, placing her between former President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz: "Every comment I have made has been in reaction to people from Donald Trump on down to Nancy Mace, down to Cruz, not the DA, but the politician calling for her execution." We covered that courtroom moment in full, with the video, in a separate dispatch: Named in Open Court. Reddington also told reporters that Mace "does not know this case, has never seen the evidence."
Tuesday, September 29, 2026, her response. ABC News 4 reported that Mace answered being named with: "Kevin Reddington defends a killer. We are calling for the execution of one." Lindsay Clancy is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent (see the case note below).
Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 8 p.m. ET, on her show. Mace gave an entire episode of her Get MACED show to being named in court. She titled it "Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer SCREAMED My Name in Court. Big Mistake." In her own words on air:
- "my comments have generated attention," which she tied to what she called the goal of advancing justice "even with our comments."
- "they turned three dead kids into fuel for a culture war and maybe this is a culture war worth having," said moments after she accused others of turning the children into culture-war fuel.
- of Reddington: "He went public. He went very public. Press conferences every day at the courthouse."
- "I'm not gagged by your case either."
Mace's own full episode on her Get MACED channel, September 29, 2026. Her words are hers; we add none of our own to them.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 9:45 a.m. ET. The next morning, Mace posted a new video to X. Her caption, reproduced in her own spelling: "Kevin Redington spent seven weeks telling a jury postpartum psychosis made Lindsay Clancy kill her kids. Now he's asking 'where is the evidence that she did this?' Pick a story Kevin. Just one." In the 44-second video (shown at the top of this page) she said: "Kevin Reddington, Lindsay Clancy's attorney, spent the entire first trial in the murder of her kids explaining to jurors that she couldn't be held criminally responsible for killing her kids because of the postpartum psychosis she was suffering from, allegedly. And then yesterday tells the judge in the case, Judge Sullivan, that there's no evidence she committed murder of her children." She closed the clip: "This guy should be disbarred." As captured at about noon ET that day, the post showed 7,990 views, 604 likes, 83 reposts and 42 replies.
That is the record as of this writing: a comment, a doubling down, a naming in court, a same-night episode, and a next-morning video. Mace's own summary of the effect, from the episode, is quoted at the top of this page.
The case, stated neutrally
Lindsay Clancy is charged with killing her three young children at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. She has not been convicted. Her defense is that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was over-medicated, and that she was not criminally responsible. Her first trial ended in a mistrial on September 4, 2026, after the jury deadlocked. The September 29 status conference before Judge William Sullivan set up a discussion of a possible retrial, reported for November 2. Clancy remains in a state psychiatric hospital. She is presumed innocent. Nothing in this write-up is a finding about her guilt or her mental state; those are questions for the court. One fact of law sits under the whole timeline: Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984, so there is no execution to call for under its law. This is a Massachusetts criminal case, unrelated to any other litigation.
Why this is on Maceopedia
A member of Congress from South Carolina has commented publicly and repeatedly on a pending Massachusetts murder case in which she holds no official role, and has called, in her own words, for the defendant to be put to death in a state that has had no death penalty for four decades. When the defendant's lawyer answered from the well of the court, he named her. Maceopedia's job is to keep the record of what she said and when. Every quotation above, including her own line that her comments "have generated attention," is her own dated, public statement, shown here in order and attributed to her. We assign her no motive and reach no verdict on the Clancy case. Readers can draw their own conclusions.
Sources & related coverage
- Her video (this dispatch's lead artifact): Nancy Mace on X, September 30, 2026
- Her full episode: Get MACED, "Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer SCREAMED My Name in Court. Big Mistake." (YouTube)
- The courtroom naming (our companion dispatch): Named in Open Court: Clancy's Lawyer Names Nancy Mace
- The courtroom video: TMZ, "Lindsay Clancy defense attorney references backlash from Trump and Nancy Mace" (AP courtroom pool feed)
- Her original call for execution: TMZ, "Rep. Nancy Mace Calls For Lindsay Clancy to Be Publicly Executed" (Sept. 14, 2026)
- Her words, in her own name (primary source): Rep. Nancy Mace, House press release, "Fires Back at Lindsay Clancy Attorney, Doubles Down on Death Penalty" (Sept. 16, 2026)
- Her words, additional detail: Newsweek, "Lindsay Clancy Should Face Public Execution, Death Penalty, Nancy Mace Says"
- The hearing and Mace's response: ABC News 4 (Charleston), "Nancy Mace named by Lindsay Clancy attorney amid tense status conference"
- The mistrial: WBUR, "Lindsay Clancy murder trial ends in mistrial"
Video artifacts credited to their creator, Nancy Mace (@NancyMace), and to TMZ (AP pool) for the courtroom feed. Quotes are verbatim from her own posts, her own show, and the named outlets, and are attributed to the people who said them.
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