BREAKING: Robert Fratta, a former suburban Houston police officer, has been executed after hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago amid a contentious divorce and custody battle.
Robert Fratta, 65, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the November 1994 fatal shooting of his wife, Farah. He was pronounced dead at 7:49 p.m.Officials provide a full update after Robert Fratta was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday night in Huntsville.
"This would have undermined the State's case, which depended on just two men committing the act and depended on linking Fratta to both," Fratta's lawyers wrote in their appeal. 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.
The execution was carried out after Texas' top criminal appeals court overturned the injunction and the state's supreme court rejected an appeal. Mauzy's order conflicted with last week's edict from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that barred her from issuing any orders in the lawsuit that would halt any execution.
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