Former police officer who hired two people to kill wife is executed

Robert Fratta (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

A former suburban Texas police officer has been executed for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago.

Robert Fratta, 65, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the November 1994 fatal shooting of his wife, Farah, in Houston.