The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the scheduled April 8 execution of Michael Tanzi for the 2000 murder of ...

Florida sex killer Michael Tanzi is too fat to fry, his legal eagles are claiming. The 48-year-old death row denizen is ...

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

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

Michael Tanzi, 48, who was found guilty of murdering Janet Acosta, 49, in 2003, is set to face the ultimate punishment on ...

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

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.

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

Convicted murderer Michael Tanzi, 48, is set to be executed on April 8. Tanzi has been on death row since he was found guilty and sentenced for the murder of 49-year-old Janet Acosta in 2003.

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...