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 ...

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.

Farah Fratta originally hailed from England and moved to Missouri, Texas after she married Robert Fratta in 1983. Robert was a former fireman, policeman, and public safety officer, and the couple ...

Less than an hour after the shooting, before Farah Fratta passed in the night, her husband, Robert “Bob” Fratta, showed up with the couple’s three children: Bradley, 7, Daniel, 6, and Amber, 4. The ...