Overview
- The sentence was imposed Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras and includes 73 months in prison plus three years of supervised release.
- English pleaded guilty in March 2026 to weapons and explosives counts after traveling from Massachusetts to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 27, 2025 with a folding knife and two improvised incendiary devices.
- At the Capitol English told officers she wanted to turn herself in and admitted, “I was going to kill Scott Bessent,” naming the Treasury nominee as the intended target; prosecutors said she had considered other conservative targets and was inspired by Luigi Mangione.
- Contreras rejected prosecutors’ request for roughly 121 months, citing that English surrendered, displayed serious mental‑health and substance‑abuse issues, and that the devices and plan had an exceedingly low likelihood of success.
- The court credited English with about 20 months already served and the judge said he would recommend placement in a women’s facility, a decision that the Bureau of Prisons will make; coverage of the case has varied in emphasis between the security threat and English’s mental‑health and gender identity.