Aug. 27 (UPI) — The trial of Lindsay Clancy, charged with killing her three children, has ended, and the case was sent to the jury Thursday. With no verdict decided upon, the jurors will resume deliberations Friday.

The prosecution and defense made their closing arguments to the jury, and the judge gave the jury instructions before sending them off to deliberate in the Plymouth, Mass., courthouse.

Clancy, 36, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the killings of her three children: Cora, 5; Dawson 3, and Callan, 8 months. The children’s bodies were found by their father, Patrick Clancy, in their Duxbury, Mass., home in January 2023.

Clancy pleaded not guilty and claimed she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder.

The trial began July 20 and saw 21 days of testimony, with 85 witnesses called, including 72 for the prosecution.

There are nine women and three men on the jury. They have five options for their verdict: guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity.

If found guilty of first-degree murder, Clancy faces up to live in prison. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.

Judge William Sullivan told the jury not to consider Clancy’s lack of testimony in the trial.

“The fact that the defendant did not testify has nothing to do with the question of whether she’s guilty or not guilty,” he said. “You are not to consider it in any way or even discuss it during your deliberations.”

Sullivan added that they also shouldn’t be swayed by the graphic nature of the images they saw during testimony.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington said that in the months before the killings, Clancy had gotten “lousy medical care” when seeking help for her mental illnesses.

Clancy said that on the day the children died, she was hearing voices that told her to kill herself and her children. She attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and throat and jumping out of a window. She is paralyzed from the waist down.

“This young lady is not guilty of the killing of her children because she was suffering from a disease and defect,” Reddington said.

He described how Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, had reached out to doctors and the suicide hotline.

“My God, what does she have to do? She was reaching out for help, and she was not getting it,” Reddington said.

Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague said in her closing argument that the killings were a series of rational, premeditated choices. She said Clancy strangled her oldest children first because they were more likely to fight back. Sprague called their deaths an act of “extreme atrocity and cruelty.”

“She left them discarded on the basement floor, like broken toys, because she was done playing the game,” Sprague said. “You know, to a moral certainty, she is guilty.”