Vance Boelter was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years after pleading guilty to shooting Minnesota state legislators Melissa and Mark Hortman and their spouses. The federal judge imposed consecutive sentences with no possibility of parole.
Vance Boelter, 59, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years with no parole for killing Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota. Boelter pleaded guilty in June to avoid the death penalty.
Vance Boelter was sentenced to two life sentences plus 40 years for the June 2025 killings of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and for shooting Senator John Hoffman and his wife. A federal judge described it as the longest sentence ever handed down, citing Boelter's politically motivated violence and deception in posing as a police officer.