The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to murdering a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband has been sentenced to die in jail over the grisly killing.
Vance Boelter, 59, was handed two consecutive life terms plus 40 years in prison over the murders of House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the shootings of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, who survived.
Boelter pleaded guilty last month to avoid the death penalty and instead agreed to the maximum sentence he could be issued short of capital punishment.
