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 daylight on her lunch break, kidnapped, raped and strangled. The brutal ...

Michael Tanzi is scheduled to be executed in Florida on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of Janet Acosta. Tanzi's lawyers argued against the execution, citing developmental issues and health problems.

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 ...

Twenty-five years after confessing to the brutal rape and murder of Miami Herald employee Janet Acosta, Michael Tanzi is ...

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

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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 ...

Florida is set to execute the 48-year-old Tanzi by lethal injection for the 2000 rape and murder of former Miami Herald ...

Florida is set to execute death row inmate Michael Tanzi on Tuesday for the murder of a beloved Miami Herald employee who was ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, was sentenced to death in 2003 for the slaying of Janet Acosta, a 49-year-old Miami Herald employee. "What we have here is a fledgling serial killer," Miami police Detective ...