A jury has decided on the death penalty for a former police officer convicted of hiring two hit men to kill his estranged wife.
Robert Fratta was an officer in former Missouri City who was being retried in his wife's death. Jurors in Houston began deliberating his sentence Saturday morning after being sequestered Friday.
Fratta was convicted earlier this month of hiring two men to shoot his wife, Farah, in 1994.
Fratta's 1996 conviction was overturned. An appeals court ruled that confessions from his coconspirators shouldn't have been admitted into evidence because Fratta's lawyers could not cross-examine them.
The coconspirators remain on death row.
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