Brian Marbury, 47, was convicted in October to first-degree murder by a Windsor jury.
Before his trial started, Marbury pleaded guilty to a single charge of causing an indignity to a human body.
The jury found he killed his estranged wife, Sahra Bulle, 36, in May 2023 inside a Huron Church Road motel.
Video surveillance shown to the jury, showed Marbury carrying what appeared to be a body over his shoulder and walking towards a woodlot.
Bulle’s body was discovered in a shallow grave on June 8, 2023.
A conviction of first-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of applying for parole for 25 years.
Joint submission on sentence
The Crown attorneys and defence lawyer Ken Marley have asked Justice Ian Leach for a sentence of three-and-a-half years for the indignity charge, to be served concurrently on the first-degree murder conviction.
They have asked he be banned from communicating with the Bulle or Kusow family members while incarcerated.
Whenever he is granted parole, the lawyers have asked for a lifetime ban on owning weapons, and that his DNA be placed on a database in Canada.
It's expected Marbury would then deported back to the United States.
Justice Ian Leach will return with his decision at 1:30 p.m.
Family members wearing purple
Nine people presented Victim Impact Statements for the court; many took the opportunity to thank police for solving the crime and judicial staff for the convictions and most are wearing purple sweaters with Bulle's picture on it.
"Look at her," Bulle's aunt, Roqayo Kusow said to Marbury, holding up her purple sweater. "I pray to Allah to stab her image in your head and in your heart, so your conscience will kill you every single day."
The sweaters also have a quote: "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Bulle's mother, Fartumo Kusow told CTV News, the quote is from her daughters favourite novel which is also the last gift she ever received from her.
"Not ever knowing what happened the night Sahra was killed will remain a mystery to us," Bulle's sister-in-law Alexandra Soumalias told the court. "It will be a part of our family history that we will never know and there's only one person on this planet who chooses every day not to give us that peace of mind."
"I wish I could have saved Sahra from this violent man," David Ennis told the court. "It's hard to move on with my life and I pray Sahra gets justice."
Ennis and Bulle had recently started a friendship in the weeks before her murder.
"Her kindness and forgiveness were taken advantage of by her own husband and he treated her like garbage to be taken out," Bulle's sister Samira Bulle read to the court, while looking directly at Marbury.
Sahra's brother, Abdi Bulle called Marbury's actions "callous and unforgivable".
"You've created a cascade of misery and grief and it just ripples through my family and yours," Sahra's other brother, Mohamud Bulle said.
Several of the family members referenced the grief of not being able to properly bury Bulle's body in accordance with their Muslim customs and faith.