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This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Robert Fratta, former suburban Houston police officer on death row for hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife in 1994. In a ruling late Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Fratta lost an appeal moving him a step closer to execution. Fratta argued that he had new evidence that ballistics tests on a gun he bought excluded it as the murder weapon used to kill his wife. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Ex-police officer on Texas death row loses federal appeal

By MICHAEL GRACZYK - Associated Press

Court rejects appeal from murder-for-hire convict

Associated Press