Michael Tanzi is scheduled to be executed in Florida on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of Janet Acosta. Tanzi's lawyers argued against the execution, citing developmental issues and health problems.

Florida is set to execute 48-year-old Michael Tanzi by lethal injection on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of Janet Acosta, a longtime Miami Herald employee. Tanzi’s lawyers have been arguing that ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday If it happens, this will be the 3rd execution in Florida this year and the 11th in the U.S. The execution comes 25 years after Tanzi ...

Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, authorities said. In a final statement ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, was sentenced to death in 2003 for the slaying of Janet Acosta, a 49-year-old Miami Herald employee. "What we have here is a fledgling serial killer," Miami police Detective ...

I'm about to witness Michael Anthony Tanzi exhale for the final time as the government's retribution for kidnapping and killing 49-year-old Janet Acosta during a harrowing four-hour nightmare on ...

In court documents, lawyers for Michael Tanzi, 48, say he is morbidly obese and suffers from sciatica, a condition that causes pain along the back's sciatic nerve. Tanzi's lawyers argued that ...

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Michael Tanzi, 48, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. at Florida State Prison. Michael Tanzi, left, sits in court during jury selection for sentencing in the murder ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, was given a fatal injection at Florida State Prison and pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. for the ruthless murder of respected Miami Herald production worker Janet Acosta in April 2000.

Florida is set to execute Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi on Tuesday for the murder of a beloved Miami Herald employee who was attacked on her lunch break. Tanzi, 48, is set to be executed by ...