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 ...

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 ...