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

Attorneys for a death row prisoner are making the case that his execution should be halted due to his 'too obese' condition. ...

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

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.

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

A man convicted of kidnapping a woman in Miami and later strangling her to death is set to be executed next month. Gov.

Pointing to his obesity and other medical conditions, lawyers for Florida Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi are trying to halt ...

The 2000 Florida Keys murder of Janet Acosta Janet Acosta was seated inside her parked van in April 2000 when Tanzi attacked her and threatened her with a razor blade, according to court documents.

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 ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, is scheduled to be executed April 8 at Florida State Prison. Janet Acosta, 49, a supervisor in the Miami Herald layout department, was seated inside her parked van in April 2000 ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, is scheduled to be executed April 8 at Florida State Prison. Janet Acosta was seated inside her parked van in April 2000 when Tanzi attacked her and threatened her with a razor ...