A California woman pleaded no contest to shooting her husband dead in his sleep in 2020 — now she will spend the next few decades behind bars.

Jessica Rose Nichols, 27, entered a plea of no contest last month to one count of first-degree murder and one count of using a firearm to commit a crime. In a press release, the Butte County District Attorney's Office announced that Nichols was sentenced on Tuesday to 35 years to life in prison for killing her husband, 22-year-old Mateo Lange, while he slept in the early morning hours of Nov. 6, 2020.

According to the DA, Nichols initially claimed that Lange had "charged at her" while they had an argument. However, audio captured from the night of the murder told a completely different story.

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