STARKE, FloridaUSA – a man convicted of kidnapping a employee of the Miami Herald In her car when she was in her lunch break and then kill her is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday night.
Unless a pardon last minute, Michael Tanzi You will receive one injection lethal in the state prison of Florida for the kidnapping and strangulation of Janet Acosta in April 2000.
The victim, a worker production in it newspaperit was hit, stolen, taken to the keys of Florida And then strangled, and his body was left on an island.
Tanzi, 48, would become the third inmate in the corridor of the death of Florida executed this year, with another injection lethal scheduled for May 1 under orders of execution signed by Governor Ron Desantis.
Judicial records show that the victim was in his rest on April 25, 2000, sitting in your van Reading a book, when Tanzi approached him, he asked for a cigarette and then began hitting her on his face.
- “Holding her from the wrist and threatening her with a blade of shave“They show the judicial records, Tanzi led to Homestead, south of Miami, where he stopped in a gas station and tied and gagged Acosta. He took 53 dollars in cash, along with his card bank.
Then they went to the city of Tavernier in the keys of Floridawhere Tanzi used the card bank From Acosta to steal money from your account, according to records. They stopped at a hardware store where Tanzi bought Love Adhesive and blades of shaveand then Tanzi decided that he had to kill Acosta, they added.
“He led to an isolated area in Cudjoe Key, told her that she was going to kill her and began to strangle it“, according to a summary of the State Capital Penalty Commission.” He stopped to place Love Adhesive About his mouth, nose and eyes in an attempt to silence her and then strangled her until she died. “
Meanwhile, Acosta’s friends and co -workers reported their disappearance When he did not return from his rest. That led the police to his vanwhat Tanzi had led to Key West. Police indicated that Tanzi confessed the crime and showed the investigators where Acosta’s body had left.
“If I had let it go, they would have caught me faster,” Tanzi told the officers, according to the registration. “I didn’t want them to catch me. I was having fun too much … I said, ‘I can’t let go. If I let you go, then I’m going to be in many problems‘”.
Tanzi was convicted by murder in primer gradeAuto theft, kidnapping and robbery by armed hand. A jury from the Monroe County recommended the penalty of death With a 12-0 vote by the murder of Acosta
Tanzi has presented several appeals, none Successful. The Supreme Court of Florida He recently rejected his statement that he should not be executed because he is “morbidly obese” and has sciaticawhich could cause unconstitutional levels of pain. The Court ruled that its appeal was not timely because its conditions were known since 2009.
“In addition, this court has considered and rejected similar arguments based on the obesity and the procedures intravenous“, they ruled Judges.
Two others murderers convicts have been executed in Florida This year. Edward James, 63, was executed on March 20 for killing an 8 -year -old girl and her grandmother during a night of consumption excessive of alcohol and drugs.
James Dennis Ford, 64, was executed on February 13 for killing a couple married on a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the small child of the couplethat survived the terrible experience.
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