Florida man executed for abducting, killing Miami Herald employee
Florida executed Michael Tanzi in April 2025 by lethal injection for the 2000 abduction and strangling of Janet Acosta, a Miami Herald employee taken on her lunch break, after his lawyers argued he was too obese for the injection to work.
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