Florida Justices refuse to halt Michael Tanzi execution
The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the scheduled April 8 execution of Michael Tanzi for the 2000 murder of ...
A Herald employee was brutally murdered 25 years ago. Her killer is set to be executed
Michael Tanzi is scheduled to be executed at Florida State Prison on Tuesday, almost 25 years after killing Miami Herald ...
Florida killer Michael Tanzi is too obese to execute, lawyers claim
Florida sex killer Michael Tanzi is too fat to fry, his legal eagles are claiming. The 48-year-old death row denizen is ...
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Execution nears for man convicted in Miami Herald employee’s murder in Florida Keys
Nearly 25 years after Janet Acosta, a beloved Miami Herald employee, was kidnapped and killed, her convicted murderer, ...
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Florida Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence For Michael A. Tanzi
The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Michael A. Tanzi, who was convicted of the 2000 murder of Janet ...
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Florida Justices refuse to halt Michael Tanzi execution
The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the scheduled April 8 execution of Michael ... warrant for Tanzi, 48, who was convicted in the April 2000 murder of Janet Acosta.
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Death row killer 'too obese' for execution as lawyers argue it would cause 'needless suffering'
Michael Tanzi, 48, who was found guilty of murdering Janet Acosta, 49, in 2003, is set to face the ultimate punishment on ...
Death row inmate's lawyers argue that client is too obese for lethal injection
A death row inmate's lawyers filed documents requesting that their client be exempt from lethal injection due to his morbid obesity.
Florida death row inmate’s lawyers argue he shouldn’t be executed because he’s ‘morbidly obese’
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.