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Robert Fratta case update: Supreme Court denies to grant stay of execution

File photo. Robert Fratta (L) and Farah Fratta, who was shot and killed in murder-for-hire plot. (KPRC)

HOUSTON – The Supreme Court declines on Monday to grant a stay of execution to Robert Fratta, who is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Tuesday.

The court denied two applications in which Fratta sought a stay. There are no recorded dissents.

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Fratta is on death row for hiring two men to kill his estranged wife in a murder-for-hire plot in 1994.

Robert Fratta, a former police officer, masterminded a plot that killed his wife, Farah, in Harris County. (TDCJ)

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