Florida executes man convicted of killing woman he abducted

Michael Tanzi, who received lethal injection at Florida state prison for killing Janet Acosta in 2000, declared dead at 48

A man convicted of killing a woman who was carjacked on her lunch break from her job at the Miami Herald was executed Tuesday evening.

Michael Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6.12pm following a three-drug injection at Florida state prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, a production worker at the South Florida paper. The victim was attacked in her van, beaten, robbed, driven to the Florida Keys and then strangled before her body was left on an island.