A Florida dying row inmate, whose attraction based mostly on his “morbidly overweight” weight was not too long ago rejected by the Florida Supreme Court docket, is ready to be executed by deadly injection on Tuesday.
Michael Tanzi, 48, is scheduled to be put to dying Tuesday evening at Florida State Jail in connection to the April 2000 kidnapping and strangling dying of Janet Acosta, a manufacturing employee at The Miami Herald.
Tanzi allegedly beat, robbed and strangled Acosta earlier than leaving her physique within the Florida Keys.
Tanzi was sentenced to dying after being convicted of homicide within the first diploma, carjacking, kidnapping and armed theft.
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Michael Tanzi is ready to be executed in Florida on Tuesday. (Florida Division of Corrections)
Appeals filed by his attorneys had been denied, with the latest being an attraction citing Tanzi’s “morbidly overweight” weight and sciatica, which they alleged may trigger “unconstitutional ranges of ache,” in accordance with a report from The Related Press.
The courtroom dominated the attraction was not well timed as a result of Tanzi’s well being issues had been identified since 2009, noting comparable appeals based mostly on weight have been rejected.
Corrections Division spokesman Ted Veerman informed the AP Tanzi wakened at 4:45 a.m. and met with a non secular adviser. He was later served his final meal.
Janet Acosta physique was discovered deserted within the Florida Keys. (iStock)
Acosta was approached by Tanzi whereas on break in her van on April 25, 2000.
After punching her within the face, he drove her to Homestead whereas holding her wrist and threatening her with a razor blade, the AP reported. He stopped at a gasoline station the place he took her cash, robbed and gagged her.
Tanzi continued on to the Florida Keys, the place he used her debit card to buy duct tape and razor blades, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
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A abstract by the state Fee on Capital Instances famous Tanzi drove to an remoted space in Cudjoe Key, informed Acosta he was going to kill her, and strangled her.
“He stopped to position duct tape over her mouth, nostril and eyes in an try to quiet her after which strangled her till she expired,” in accordance with the abstract.
Acosta’s van was discovered by authorities in Key West. (iStock)
Acosta was reported lacking by buddies and colleagues, resulting in the invention of her van in Key West, in accordance with the report. Tanzi later confessed and led police to Acosta’s physique.
“If I had let her go, I used to be gonna get caught faster,” Tanzi informed officers, in accordance with courtroom paperwork. “I didn’t wish to get caught. I used to be having an excessive amount of enjoyable… I informed her, I says, ‘I can’t allow you to go. If I allow you to go, then I’m gonna be in numerous bother.’”
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Lower than a month in the past, a South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s mother and father with a baseball bat in 2001 was executed by firing squad, a way used for the primary time in 15 years within the U.S.
Brad Sigmon, 67, selected to die by firing squad, citing fears about deadly injection, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported.
Hours earlier than Sigmon’s dying, the U.S. Supreme Court docket denied an emergency movement to droop the execution due to South Carolina’s secretive deadly injection insurance policies.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
