Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Tanzi's death warrant last month, condemning him for strangling Acosta, a veteran ...

Michael Anthony Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday for the grisly murder of Janet Acosta in 2000. Newsweek was in ...

Tanzi was on death row for more than two decades for the 2000 murder of 49-year-old Janet Acosta, who was attacked in broad ...

The 48-year-old was convicted of first-degree murder, carjacking, kidnapping, and armed robbery. A Monroe County jury ...

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Michael Tanzi, a man who suffered from severe childhood abuse and mental illness, was executed for the 2000 murder of Janet ...

Morbidly obese’ murderer on death row, Michael Anthony Tanzi, shared his sobering final words before being executed as his ...

Michael Tanzi, a Florida death row inmate once branded a “fledgling serial killer,” has been executed for the brutal ...

The group Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty said in a statement on Tanzi’s execution, “It is not justice to ...

Michael Tanzi is to be executed by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of a newspaper employee.

Tanzi was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening, 25 years after he kidnapped a woman on her lunch break in Miami ...

Michael Tanzi was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison for the 2000 abduction and strangling of Janet Acosta. A production worker at the South Florida paper, Acosta was ...