Framing Analysis
Vance Boelter, 59, pleaded guilty to federal charges and was sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years for the killings of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the shootings of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim imposed the sentence after a plea agreement that removed the death penalty. The Hortman family expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome while survivors described the attacks.