'Morbidly obese' Florida man who admitted to killing Miami Herald employee to be executed Tuesday

A Florida decease enactment inmate, whose entreaty based connected his "morbidly obese" value was precocious rejected by the Florida Supreme Court, is acceptable to beryllium executed by lethal injection connected Tuesday.

Michael Tanzi, 48, is scheduled to beryllium enactment to decease Tuesday nighttime astatine Florida State Prison successful transportation to the April 2000 kidnapping and strangling decease of Janet Acosta, a accumulation idiosyncratic astatine The Miami Herald.

Tanzi allegedly beat, robbed and strangled Acosta earlier leaving her assemblage successful the Florida Keys.

Tanzi was sentenced to decease aft being convicted of execution successful the archetypal degree, carjacking, kidnapping and equipped robbery.

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Michael Tanzi is acceptable to beryllium executed successful Florida connected Tuesday. (Florida Department of Corrections)

Appeals filed by his attorneys were denied, with the astir caller being an entreaty citing Tanzi's "morbidly obese" value and sciatica, which they alleged could origin "unconstitutional levels of pain," according to a study from The Associated Press.

The tribunal ruled the entreaty was not timely due to the fact that Tanzi's wellness concerns were known since 2009, noting akin appeals based connected value person been rejected.

Corrections Department spokesperson Ted Veerman told the AP Tanzi woke up astatine 4:45 a.m. and met with a spiritual adviser. He was aboriginal served his past meal.

Janet Acosta assemblage was recovered abandoned successful the Florida Keys. (iStock)

Acosta was approached by Tanzi portion connected interruption successful her van connected April 25, 2000.

After punching her successful the face, helium drove her to Homestead portion holding her wrist and threatening her with a razor blade, the AP reported. He stopped astatine a state presumption wherever helium took her money, robbed and gagged her.

Tanzi continued connected to the Florida Keys, wherever helium utilized her debit paper to acquisition duct portion and razor blades, according to tribunal documents.

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A summary by the authorities Commission connected Capital Cases noted Tanzi drove to an isolated country successful Cudjoe Key, told Acosta helium was going to termination her, and strangled her.

"He stopped to spot duct portion implicit her mouth, chemoreceptor and eyes successful an effort to quiescent her and past strangled her until she expired," according to the summary.

Acosta's van was recovered by authorities successful Key West. (iStock)

Acosta was reported missing by friends and colleagues, starring to the find of her van successful Key West, according to the report. Tanzi aboriginal confessed and led constabulary to Acosta’s body.

"If I had fto her go, I was gonna get caught quicker," Tanzi told officers, according to tribunal documents. "I didn’t privation to get caught. I was having excessively overmuch fun... I told her, I says, ‘I can’t fto you go. If I fto you go, past I’m gonna beryllium successful a batch of trouble.’"

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Less than a period ago, a South Carolina antheral convicted of sidesplitting his ex-girlfriend's parents with a shot bat successful 2001 was executed by firing squad, a method utilized for the archetypal clip successful 15 years successful the U.S.

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to dice by firing squad, citing fears astir lethal injection, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

Hours earlier Sigmon's death, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an exigency question to suspend the execution due to the fact that of South Carolina's secretive lethal injection policies.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.