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Jessica Watkins was given more than eight years in prison. A former leading member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group was sentence d Friday to eight years and six months in prison for her role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Jessica Watkins led a small group into the Capitol building, but prosecutors said her actions enabled many more to ultimately disrupt the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. Struggling to express her remorse through her tears, Watkins apologized before the court. "My actions and behaviors on that fateful day were wrong and -- as I now understand -- criminal," she said. Jessica Watkins marches down the East front steps of the U.S. Capitol with the Oath Keepers militia group among supporters of President Donald Trump occupying the steps in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. Jim Bourg/Reuters MORE: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for leading Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy Watkins' sentencing f...

Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers were convicted on on charges of seditious conspiracy and other felonies. The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence Oath Keepers found er Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison following his conviction along with other members of the anti-government militia group on charges of seditious conspiracy and other felonies stemming from their involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors set forth their requested sentences for Rhodes and eight other Oath Keepers convicted of a range of offenses following two separate trials in November of last year and in January. Six of the nine total defendants were convicted on the key seditious conspiracy charge while three others -- Jessica Watkins, Thomas Caldwell and Kenneth Harrelson -- were found not guilty of that charge but were convicted of other serious felonies. Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes poses during an interview session in Eureka, Montana, U.S. ...

QAnon follower to be sentenced in Jan. 6 Capitol attack after leading led mob that chased Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman. A follower of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement who led members of the pro-Trump mob that chased Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman during the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol is set to be sentenced Friday following his conviction of multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses for his actions during the riot. Doug Jensen, 43, became one of the more recognizable figures in early pictures that emerged from the Capitol assault and was one of the first rioters to breach the building after scaling a 20-foot wall on the West Front of the complex. In their sentencing memo requesting Judge Timothy Kelly sentence Jensen to more than five years in prison, prosecutors describe Jensen as a "ringleader" during the attack who later expressed pride in becoming a "poster boy" of Jan. 6. Smoke fills the walkway outside the Senate Chamber as suppor...