USA - Texas. Jury sends Robert Fratta back to death row

Jury sends former officer Robert Fratta back to death row. The former officer was convicted May 15 for the 2nd time of hiring 2 men to shoot his wife, Farah, in novembre 1994. His original conviction had been overturned on Oct. 1, 2007 (see). District Judge Belinda Hill is expected to officially sentence Fratta Monday. Fratta's original 1996 conviction was overturned when an appeals court ruled that the confessions of his co-conspirators, Howard Guidry and Joseph Prystash, should not have been admitted into evidence because Fratta's lawyers could not cross-examine them. The 2 remain on death row. (see also Jan. 14, 2005 and March 1, 2007).