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• October 7, 2026 · Dispatch

  '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.

• October 1, 2026 · Dispatch

  She Wants the Death Penalty for Women No Court Has Found Guilty: Nancy Mace Weighs In, Again, on a South Carolina Case She Has No Role In

  On October 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on X that she is 'praying for the firing squad' for a South Carolina mother charged in the deaths of her two young daughters: 'You kill your kids, the state should kill you. It's called the death penalty, this woman has earned it.' The woman, Justine Marie May of Ladson, Charleston County, is charged, not convicted, has not been tried, and is presumed innocent. It was the second South Carolina child-death case in two days on which Mace publicly prejudged the defendant, after her September 30 House statement on a Spartanburg case ('This is not mental. This is criminal.') and one day after Lindsay Clancy's defense lawyer named her in a Massachusetts courtroom. Mace holds no charging, prosecuting, judging, or sentencing role in any of the three. Nothing here is a finding about any defendant's guilt or mental state, and nothing here assigns Mace a motive. The words are hers, in order. Readers can draw their own conclusions.

• September 30, 2026 · Dispatch

  '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.

• September 30, 2026 · Dispatch

  Named in Open Court: Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Says His Comments Answered Politicians 'From Donald Trump on Down to Nancy Mace' - the Congresswoman Who Called for Clancy's Public Execution

  At a September 29, 2026 status conference in the Lindsay Clancy murder case, defense attorney Kevin Reddington told a Plymouth Superior Court judge that his own public comments had all been made 'in reaction to' politicians 'from Donald Trump on down to Nancy Mace, down to Cruz... the politician calling for her execution.' TMZ posted the courtroom video. Rep. Nancy Mace is named because she did, in her own words and repeatedly, call for Clancy to be put to death, publicly: she told TMZ in Washington that 'her children are dead, she should be dead too,' and her own House press release two days later doubled down that 'Lindsay Clancy needs to face the death penalty, and it needs to be public.' Massachusetts abolished capital punishment in 1984. 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.