In a Massachusetts courtroom, the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy — a mother who strangled her three children — ended not in verdict but in deadlock, leaving the case suspended in legal uncertainty. The jury's inability to agree on guilt quietly illuminates a deeper question: whether the law, as written, is adequate to the full complexity of what it is being asked to judge. Across other Western democracies, infanticide statutes have long acknowledged that maternal filicide occupies a distinct moral and psychological territory — one that American law, with no equivalent framework, must force int
How infanticide laws might have changed Lindsay Clancy's trial outcome
Three children were strangled to death by their mother, Lindsay Clancy.