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Robert Fratta, who was convicted of organizing the 1994 murder-for-hire plot amid a contentious divorce and child custody fight, died by lethal injection.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week unanimously declined to commute the ex-officer's death sentence to a lesser penalty.

HOUSTON (AP) — A former suburban Houston police officer was set to be executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago. Robert Fratta, 65, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the November 1994 fatal shooting of his wife, Farah, amid a contentious divorce and custody fight for their three children.

A former suburban Houston police officer is set to be executed for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago

Texas is set to execute a former police officer for hiring two people to kill his wife 30 years ago. Robert Fratta is scheduled to die of lethal injection on Tuesday for the 1994 slaying.

Robert Fratta is set to die by lethal injection for the 1994 fatal shooting of his wife, Farah, amid a contentious divorce and custody fight for their three children.

A former suburban Houston police officer was set to be executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago.

Robert Fratta, a former Missouri City cop, paid a hitman to kill his wife Farah in 1994 during a messy divorce and bitter child custody battle.