Lindsay Clancy faces first-degree murder charges over the deaths of her three young children. But if her case had happened elsewhere, the charges might have looked very different.

Clancy’s trial in Massachusetts has captured international attention. It has divided public opinion and ignited debate over how the US prosecutes cases involving mothers who kill their children — and the charges brought against them.

Other countries, including the UK, Canada and Australia, have specific statutes that allow mothers to be charged with infanticide — a conviction that’s more lenient than murder and often results in mental health treatment rather than prison time. So, why is US law different?

The Global Story’s Asma Khalid speaks with Dr Karen Brennan, a senior lecturer in law at the University of Essex, to discuss what the Lindsay Clancy case reveals about how American law understands motherhood, mental illness and criminal responsibility.

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Timecodes:

0:00 Disclaimer
1:13 Karen Brennan Introduction
2:20 Would the charges have been different if she was tried in another country?
5:43 Infanticide sentencing history
6:15 The Infanticide Act 1938
8:58 The arguments against the infanticide law
13:25 Motherhood and mental health
15:05 The perceptions of the US and parenthood
18:07 How are the public reacting to the case?

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Iran and the US have traded strikes after American forces attacked two rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz.

The first known US strikes on Iran since late July killed two people and injured two others, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which vowed “response and punishment”.

US Central Command said it had taken “limited, precise action” against “minelaying forces posing an imminent threat in the Strait of Hormuz”.

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Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement has attacked energy facilities and other civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia with dozens …

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Extreme weather conditions are continuing across the US, with intense lightning and thunderstorms happening across the east coast, which also caused evacuations of a number of July 4 events.

In Europe, heat continues to be an issue for many, with firefighters in Greece trying to tackle a fast-moving wildfire near Thessaloniki.

And people in the US Pacific Islands are boarding up buildings and homes to protect themselves against incoming Super Typhoon.

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