SCHENECTADY – If Nicholas Fiebka was looking for mercy at his double murder sentencing Friday morning in Schenectady County Court, he was looking in the wrong place.

Fiebka, 21, the Schenectady man convicted earlier this year of killing his mother and her long-time boyfriend back in 2022, found out he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole.

“When it comes to sentencing, there’s no suspense, you know what you’ve got coming,” Judge Matthew Sypniewski forewarned the defendant. “You can act as stoic as you like, like you don’t care, but you care. Everybody who’s about to get locked up, boxed up for the rest of your life, they care.”

The maximum sentence came despite a passionate plea from Defense Attorney Mark Sacco.

“It is absolutely a mitigating factor that Mr. Fiebka suffers from serious mental health issues,” Sacco argued before the court, “If he didn’t have those issues, he wouldn’t have done this.”

When given a chance to speak, Fiebka did so.

“I just want to say I’m a servant of god, and they can paint what ever picture they want, but God knows who I really am, and my heart, how pure it is,” Fiebka declared.

Assistant District Attorney Christina Tremante-Pelham called Fiebka one of the most dangerous defendants she’s ever prosecuted.

“What we’ve learned about Nick Fiebka in this case, his history, the manner in which he committed this crime, the brutal deaths that these people suffered and his overall feeling of I don’t feel bad for what I did, those are the words of someone who should never ever get out of prison,” Tremante-Pelham told reporters outside the courtroom.

Tremante-Pelham said Fiebka when from a kid with behavioral issues to a destructive violent man, asserting that when he gunned down his mother, Alesia Wadsworth, and her long-time boyfriend, William Horwedel in the Princetown home in 2022, the murders were an escalation and continuation of Fiebka’s long time threatening behavior.

“Obviously, we feel that this was absolutely the right sentence,” the prosecutor said.

In the months that preceded the murders, a family court judge had granted Alesia Wadsworth a full stay away order of protection against her son, which required him to surrender his firearms. Authorities say Fiebka was able to acquire another AK-47 after lying on a gun-purchasing application.

At least 44 bullets were fired at the scene of the double murder, investigators said.