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

Michael Tanzi, convicted nearly 25 years ago for the murder of Janet Acosta, a Miami Herald employee, is slated for execution ...

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.

Michael Tanzi, 48, who faces execution for murdering Janet Acosta, 49, may be spared the death penalty due to his obesity and ...

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

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

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

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

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

Gov. Ron DeSantis on March 10 signed a death warrant for Tanzi, who was convicted in the April 2000 murder of Janet Acosta.

Tanzi was convicted of kidnapping Janet Acosta in April 2000, strangling her to death, and leaving her body in the Keys before he continued driving south to visit friends. He was arrested after a ...