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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

Tanzi’s lawyers argue the state’s lethal-injection procedure would violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

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