The Pakistan-born New York television executive found guilty of murdering and beheading his wife has been sentenced to the maximum 25 years to life in prison.
Muzzammil Hassan was found guilty of second-degree murder last month for stabbing his third wife, 37-year-old Aasiya Zubair Hassan, at the TV studios they founded together.
Prosecutors painted the 46-year-old as an abusive husband who planned the attack meticulously.
Hassan, who took over his own defence, argued that she had abused him and he acted in self defence.
The couple founded Muslim-oriented Bridges TV in New York in 2004 in an effort to counter negative portrayals of Muslims after the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Prosecutors argued that on 12 February 2009 Hassan lured his wife to the studio and attacked her from behind, stabbing her more than 40 times with two hunting knives and cutting her head off.
