A Schenectady man, who admitted setting his own wife on fire, is now headed to prison. Geoff Redick has more from Schenectady County Court.

Elizabeth Gonzalez died a horrible death, her two sons were left without a mother, and Antonio Bargallo, will likely spend the rest of his life, behind bars.

Most likely, Wednesday was the last time that Antonio Bargallo will walk into kany building that is not a prison.

Yet, his last moments on the outside, still caused others pain.

"We've tried so much to help this man, and he just pushed it away," said Antonio Bargallo, Jr., the son of Elizabeth Gonzalez.

Six months ago, Bargallo committed one of the most gruesome murders in recent Capital Region memory: Schenectady Police say he doused his wife in gasoline, set her on fire, and walked away.

Elizabeth Gonzalez, just 48-year-old and a mother to two grown sons, was burned over half of her body. She later died on Westchester Medical Center's Burn Unit.

On Wednesday, her son Antonio Bargallo, Junior, dis-owned his father in court, and mourned the loss of Elizabeth.

"Now me and my brother don't have our mother, my mother's never gonna see her grandkids, if I ever have kids, will never be there if I get married. For a selfish, gruesome act," said Bargallo Jr.

The judge, agreed -- sentencing the 69-year-old Bargallo to 21-years-to-life in state prison -- a term agreed to in Bargallo's plea deal.

"I hope they do not, based on his age or otherwise, somehow make the sentence more comfortable. He should be classified like anyone else convicted of murder -- and in a case like this, be treated as the worst of the worst,” said Schenectady County Court Judge Matthew Sypniewski.

Bargallo, listened through an interpreter, said nothing. Even if he gets out of prison at the earliest possible date, Bargallo will be age 90 in 21 years' time, making his death on the inside, a near certainty.

To hear his son tell it, life on the outside won't be much better.

"I just -- I guess I just gotta continue on with my life. But it shouldn't be like this right now. She should be here right now," said Bargallo Jr.

The only bright spot in court were the memories of Elizabeth Gonzalez -- her family, the judge and prosecutor repeated over and over, what a sweet, caring, and above all, what a giving woman she was. They all said Gonzalez could have never deserved what Bargallo did to her.