Texas has executed a former suburban Houston police officer for hiring hitmen to kill his wife in 1994 during a heated divorce and custody battle.
Former NYPD inspector Paul Mauro shares his take on the latest in the Idaho murders case on 'Sunday Night in America.'executed a former police officer who hired two people to kill his wife almost 30 years ago during a heated divorce.lethal injectionFratta, a former suburban Houston police officer, was convicted in a murder-for-hire plot after prosecutors say he hired a middleman, Joseph Prystash, to hire the shooter, Howard Guidry.
The execution came after the U.S. Supreme Court declined a last-minute appeal from Fratta’s lawyers to halt the execution, arguing that prosecutors withheld evidence allegedly showing that one witness was hypnotized by investigators. The lawyers argue that the alleged hypnotizing caused the witness to change her recollection of the event.
The hypnosis didn't reveal new information or identification, prosecutors argue, stating that Fratta expressed multiple times that he wanted to see his wife dead, and even asked several people if they knew someone who'd kill her.Court records show that Fratta allegedly told one friend"I’ll just kill her, and I’ll do my time and when I get out, I’ll have my kids."
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