Nearly 25 years after Janet Acosta, a beloved Miami Herald employee, was kidnapped and killed, her convicted murderer, ...

Attorneys for a death row prisoner are making the case that his execution should be halted due to his 'too obese' condition. ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, who was found guilty of murdering Janet Acosta, 49, in 2003, is set to face the ultimate punishment on ...

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the scheduled April 8 execution of Michael Tanzi for the 2000 murder of ...

The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

A death row inmate's lawyers filed documents requesting that their client be exempt from lethal injection due to his morbid obesity.

Pointing to his obesity and other medical conditions, lawyers for Florida Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi are trying to halt ...

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

Florida sex killer Michael Tanzi is too fat to fry, his legal eagles are claiming. The 48-year-old death row denizen is ...

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him ...