A Texas inmate was executed Tuesday evening with a drug a state district judge ruled couldn’t be used because it was likely expired.
Robert Fratta, 65, of the Houston area, was executed Tuesday night with the drug pentobarbital, shortly after the state’s top criminal appeals court overturned the ruling. Fratta is a former police officer who was convicted of hiring people to kill his wife. She was fatally shot at her home while the couple was going through a divorce.