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'She Should Get the Firing Squad': Nancy Mace Asks the South Carolina Legislature to Write a Death Penalty for One Untried Woman, Then Offers the Firing Squad to Lindsay Clancy

Two minutes into her October 1, 2026 Get Maced episode, Rep. Nancy Mace says she is 'begging the state legislature to make one exception' to South Carolina's death penalty for a Spartanburg County woman who has been charged with attempted murder and has not been tried: 'She should get the firing squad. We have that here.' She then offers the state's firing squad to Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts defendant whose trial is pending, and to an unnamed Tennessee defendant. The U.S. Constitution bars a state from passing a bill of attainder or an ex post facto law, so a death penalty written for one named person, after the alleged act, is not something any legislature can enact. Every quote here is verbatim from her own upload, checked against the audio. The woman she names is charged, not convicted. Her children are not named. Maceopedia reaches no conclusion about any defendant and assigns Mace no motive; the words are hers.

Nancy Mace, Get Maced, October 1, 2026, 02:14 to 02:52 of her own upload. Real footage and audio from her channel, captioned verbatim by Maceopedia.

Source note: this dispatch is built on the October 1, 2026 episode of Nancy Mace's own podcast, Get Maced, posted to her YouTube channel. The quotes are verbatim from that upload, checked against the audio word by word. Case facts are attributed to the outlets and officials that reported them. The Spartanburg County woman she names is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent. Her children are minors and are not named here. Maceopedia does not evaluate anyone's guilt or mental state and assigns Mace no motive.

"I am begging the state legislature to make one exception for this woman out of Spartanburg, South Carolina... She should get the firing squad. We have that here. Send Lindsay Clancy down anytime you want."

That is Rep. Nancy Mace, two minutes into the Thursday, October 1, 2026 episode of Get Maced, the podcast she records in her own studio and posts to her own YouTube channel. The episode runs 34 minutes. The passage above runs 38 seconds. In it she asks a state legislature to write a death penalty for attempted murder as a "one exception" for a single named defendant who has not been tried, then offers South Carolina's firing squad to a defendant in Massachusetts and another in Tennessee.

The clip

The 16:9 cut at the top of this page is her own footage, 02:14 to 02:52 of her upload, captioned verbatim. Her full episode, cued to the start of the passage, is below.

Nancy Mace, Get Maced, "Nancy Mace SHARES the Words James Talarico Doesn't Want You to Hear," posted October 1, 2026 (34:28). Embedded from her channel, cued to 02:14.

What she said, in order

Timestamps are minutes and seconds into her upload. The transcript is from the audio of the episode, with a word-timed pass run on the raw audio; one stutter is rendered as she said it.

02:14. "You've read about this story. This mother stabbed her two children, ages three and six, over 50 times and then took a baseball bat to them."

02:22. "We don't have the death penalty for attempted murder in South Carolina, but I am begging the state legislature to make one exception for this woman out of Spartanburg, South Carolina, who dang, who darn near, damn near killed her kids."

02:38. "She should get the firing squad. We have that here."

02:41. "Send Lindsay Clancy down anytime you want. We'll even take that girl in Tennessee, Pike. We'll take her too, since we have the firing squad. We'll make it real easy on you."

The word after "Tennessee" sounds like "Pike" on three separate transcription passes. We could not identify who she means and do not guess. She names no Tennessee case.

Nancy Mace at her Get Maced desk on October 1, 2026, at 02:40, as she says "She should get the firing squad."

02:40. "She should get the firing squad. We have that here." A frame from her own upload.

Nancy Mace at her Get Maced desk on October 1, 2026, at 02:30, as she says "make one exception for this woman."

02:30. "I am begging the state legislature to make one exception for this woman out of Spartanburg, South Carolina." A frame from her own upload.

Who she is talking about

The Spartanburg County woman. Mace does not say the name on the podcast. The case she describes is the one her office had issued a press release about the day before: Taylor Gosnell, 35, of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, was booked late on September 26, 2026 and is charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office as reported by Fox News (Brittany Miller) and WSPA. Her children, ages 6 and 3, were found with about 50 stab wounds between them, the sheriff's office said. She was denied bond on September 27. IBTimes UK (Chelsie Napiza) reports that two 2024 charges of unlawfully placing a child at risk of harm, from a February 2024 arrest, are still pending against her. She has not been tried on any of it. She is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent. We do not name the children.

Attempted murder is not a capital offense in South Carolina. Mace says so herself in the clip: "We don't have the death penalty for attempted murder in South Carolina."

Lindsay Clancy. Clancy is charged with killing her three young children at their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023; her defense is that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible. Her first trial ended in a mistrial, and the case is pending in Plymouth Superior Court. On September 29, 2026, two days before this episode, her defense attorney named Mace from the well of that court as one of the politicians calling for his client's execution. Both are on this site: Named in Open Court and the timeline of Mace's Clancy statements, in her own words. Mace has no role in that case. Clancy is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent.

"That girl in Tennessee." Not identified. See the transcript note above.

What she is asking for cannot be written

Mace is not asking a court for anything. She is asking the South Carolina General Assembly to pass a law. The law she describes would create a death penalty for attempted murder as "one exception" for "this woman," a single person already charged for alleged acts of September 25 and 26, 2026.

The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 10, Clause 1, as published by the National Archives:

"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."

A bill of attainder, in the definition published by Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, is "legislation that declares an individual or group guilty of a crime and imposes punishment without the benefit of a judicial proceeding," and the same entry notes that Article I, Section 10 "extends the prohibition to state legislatures." An ex post facto law punishes conduct that was not so punishable when it occurred. A state statute that attaches the death penalty to one named person for an act that took place before the statute existed is what both clauses describe. The legislature she is "begging" has no power to pass it. That is the text, not an opinion.

She is pushing the line herself

This was not an aside she let go. Her own accounts have promoted the passage since.

On the afternoon of Monday, October 5, 2026, her personal account @NancyMace posted, with a video clip: "If you kill your children, you should face the death penalty."

Screenshot of @NancyMace post, October 5, 2026, 2:25 PM: If you kill your children, you should face the death penalty.

Her post on X, October 5, 2026, 2:25 PM ET. See the original.

On or about October 6, her nancyrmace Facebook page posted a 26-second clip from the episode under the title "Death Penalty Debate: No Mercy for Heinous Crimes, Says Congresswoman".

Those two posts sit on top of what she had already said about the same case and the same week. On September 30, her House office released a statement on official letterhead about the Spartanburg case: "This is not mental. This is criminal." On October 1, at 5:00 AM, hours before this episode, she posted about a second South Carolina mother, in a different county, charged in the deaths of her two daughters: "You kill your kids, the state should kill you. It's called the death penalty, this woman has earned it." Both are documented, with the originals, in the September 30 and October 1 dispatch.

The pattern, kept to the record

  • September 14, 2026. On TMZ, asked about Lindsay Clancy, Mace said: "It should be a public execution. It could be by firearm, it could be electric chair. I don't really care. Not an injection." Dispatch.
  • September 29. Clancy's defense attorney named Mace in Plymouth Superior Court as one of the politicians calling for his client's execution and said she "does not know this case, has never seen the evidence." Dispatch.
  • September 30. Her House office's Spartanburg statement: "This is not mental. This is criminal." Dispatch.
  • October 1, 5:00 AM. "You kill your kids, the state should kill you." Same dispatch.
  • October 1, 8 PM. This episode: "make one exception for this woman... She should get the firing squad... Send Lindsay Clancy down anytime you want."
  • October 2. Mace posted that Letitia James "doesn't get to call 7 men at Cornell guilty before her investigation even starts. That's not justice. That's a verdict looking for evidence." Dispatch, which sets that post beside her own earlier statements about men who have never been charged.
  • October 5. "If you kill your children, you should face the death penalty."

Mace holds no charging, prosecuting, judging, sentencing or legislative role in any of the cases named above. Each defendant is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent.

Why this is on Maceopedia

A sitting member of Congress, on her own channel, asked a state legislature to write a death penalty for one untried person and offered her state's firing squad to defendants in two other states, three days after being named in open court for prejudging one of those cases. Maceopedia's job is to keep the record of what she said and when, in her own words, with the source shown. We reach no conclusion about any defendant and assign Mace no motive. Readers can judge the words for themselves.

Sources & related coverage

Quotes are verbatim from Nancy Mace's own upload and her own posts. Case facts are attributed to the outlets and officials named above. Taylor Gosnell and Lindsay Clancy are each charged, not convicted, and are presumed innocent. No minor is named.

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