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

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

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

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

The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Michael A. Tanzi, who was convicted of the 2000 murder of Janet ...

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

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

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

Michael Tanzi, 48, was sentenced to death in 2003 for the murder of Janet Acosta in 2000, and after over two decades of serving time, Governor Ron DeSantis signed his death warrant. However ...

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.