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The Marcy prison is across the street from Mid-State Correctional Facility, where 10 guards have been indicted for fatally ...
A suppression hearing for one of the former corrections officers involved in the beating death of Marcy Correctional Facility ...
A tentative trial date has been set for Monday, Oct. 6 for the murder of Marcy prison inmate Robert L. Brooks. According to ...
An Oneida County judge has set a date that, at least for now, will serve as a single trial for eight officers accused of an ...
Robert Fratta died by lethal injection in 2023 for the 1994 murder-for-hire of his wife Farah. Both accomplices were also sentenced to death.
Prosecutors say Robert Fratta organized the murder-for-hire plot in which a middleman, Joseph Prystash, hired the shooter, Howard Guidry, for $1,000.
Death row inmate Robert Fratta was executed in Texas Tuesday with a drug that an expert witness claimed was likely expired.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — 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 ...
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 prounounced dead at 7:49 p.m.
A one-time police officer convicted of hiring two men to kill his estranged wife has died by execution. Robert Fratta, 65, died Tuesday at the Hunstville Penitentiary in Texas after receiving the ...
In his final hours, former police officer Robert Fratta — convicted in the murder-for-hire plot of his estranged wife — expressed nervous curiosity over the constitutional crisis.