Robert Fratta, a former Missouri City public safety officer, was executed on January 10, 2023, for orchestrating the 1994 murder of his estranged wife, Farah Fratta, in Atascocita, Texas.

The 33-year-old mother of three was shot twice in the head in her garage in what authorities later confirmed was a murder-for-hire scheme orchestrated by her estranged husband, Robert Fratta.

Attorneys for inmates Wesley Ruiz, John Balentine and Robert Fratta had asked a civil judge in Austin last month to issue a temporary order to stop the state from using the allegedly expired ...