Florida to execute man convicted of killing woman he abducted

Michael Tanzi is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida state prison for killing Janet Acosta in 2000

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

Michael Tanzi was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida state prison for the 2000 abduction and strangling of Janet Acosta. A production worker at the South Florida paper, Acosta was beaten, robbed, driven to the Florida Keys and then strangled and her body left on an island.

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