Murder-for-hire husband nearly dodges death row over a lawsuit
The execution of former police officer Robert Fratta nearly got delayed after being convicted of killing his wife in a murder-for-hire plot. Fratta was convicted in 1994 of hiring two men to kill his estranged wife during a custody battle. In 2009, he was given a retrial and sentenced to death after a stint of maintaining his innocence. Since then, the guilty verdict has not changed, but a separate case had a chance of delaying …