A Lancaster County judge Wednesday scolded Jose Ferrufino for a “total lack of remorse” before imposing a life sentence plus 15 to 35 years for the murder of a Providence Township man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

A Lancaster County jury last month found Ferrufino, 50, guilty of killing 35-year-old Hugo Garcia-Hernandez on March 22, 2017, rejecting his claim of innocence.

Garcia-Hernandez, of 124 Pennsy Road, died from a single shot to the heart after Ferrufino and two other men broke down his bedroom door before 2 in the morning and attempted to bind him with zip ties, according to trial testimony.

Ferrufino, a fencing contractor formerly of Manheim Township, testified he was asleep when the killing happened.

Judge David Ashworth at the sentencing said a letter he received from Ferrufino that reasserted his innocence and blamed others shows a “total lack of remorse” and “arrogance.”

Ashworth called the point-blank shooting a premeditated assassination.

“You felt you had the right to do what you did,” said Ashworth as Ferrufino, in green prison garb, stood before him. “Mr. Ferrufino, this is a nation of laws. This is not a nation of who can get away with whatever they can get away with.”

U.S. Border Patrol officers caught Ferrufino, a native of El Salvador, trying to enter illegally near Rio Grande City, Texas, in February 2003. Three years later, an immigration judge canceled Ferrufino’s deportation, allowing him to lawfully remain in the United States, according to immigration officials.

Ferrufino declined to say anything at the half-hour proceeding.

“Great loss”

judge “You felt you had the right to do what you did."

Maria Antonia Martinez told the judge that Garcia-Hernandez was her cousin but was more like “my right arm” in the ways that he helped her.

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“Honestly, I feel very sad,” said Martinez, speaking in Spanish as a court interpreter translated. “It’s very hard to remember all this.”

“Thank God,” she added, “justice is being done.”

Everardo Hernandez-Garcia, the victim’s nephew, also speaking in Spanish, described the sense of “great loss” he and his family continues to struggle with.

“Thank God justice is being made because I know in this country, things are done in a clear way,” Hernandez-Garcia said. “I’m thanking the authorities for doing all their jobs.”

The first-degree murder conviction carried a mandatory sentence of life in state prison without possibility of parole.

Ashworth added the additional jail term for the murder-related burglary and conspiracy. In addition, the judge sentenced Ferrufino for the threats he made at gunpoint at Garcia-Hernandez’s home on Dec. 24, 2016.

Assistant District Attorney Barry Goldman built his case around an accomplice who implicated Ferrufino.

accomplice “This is the pain my heart felt when you were (having sex) with my wife."

The accomplice, Alejandro Cruz-Santiago, 40, a former cook at the now-shuttered Carlos & Charlies, explained how Ferrufino went out of his way to befriend him and then recruited him to rob, not kill, Garcia-Hernandez.

He said he was shocked when Ferrufino, who he knew as “El Chapo,” pulled out a handgun and shot Garcia-Hernandez in the chest.

“This is the pain my heart felt when you were (having sex) with my wife,” Ferrufino said before pulling the trigger, according to Cruz-Santiago.

The men fled without loot, not even Garcia-Hernandez’s wallet, state police said.