Texas' first execution of 2023 closes a nearly 30-year ordeal involving a once-trusted member of a police department.
Robert Fratta, 65, was convicted of hiring two men to kill his wife amid their divorce and custody battle.Robert Fratta, a former Missouri City officer, is set to be executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago.A former suburban Houston police officer was executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago amid a contentious divorce and custody battle.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined an appeal from Fratta's lawyers to stop the execution. They had argued prosecutors withheld evidence that a trial witness had been hypnotized by investigators, leading her to change her initial recollection that she saw two men at the murder scene as well as a getaway driver.
Fratta was also one of four Texas death row inmates who sued to stop the state's prison system from using what they allege are expired and unsafe execution drugs.
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