As a woman, I am appalled by Michael Tanzi's outrageous actions. As an anti-capital punishment lawyer, I am appalled by what followed as well.

Texas was the first U.S. state to execute someone by lethal injection, but the idea for the novel method came from Oklahoma. Our northern neighbor was the first to adopt the plan to replace the ...

He had been faced with an impossible choice, if you can call it that. Die by lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad? Firing squad, he concluded, seemed the most humane. Now, he found ...

STARKE, Fla. -- A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m ...

Tanzi would be the third Death Row inmate to be executed in Florida this year. A 48-year-old man is to be executed by lethal injection in the southern US state of Florida on Tuesday for the April ...

He is set to be executed by lethal injection on April 8 at noon, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE. Tanzi’s attorneys have tried to halt the scheduled execution because they say ...

A discreet delivery pulled up outside of Idaho’s maximum-security prison near Boise in the state’s exhaustive quest for lethal injection drugs 1 1⁄2 years ago. Just outside of the prison ...

Barring a late reprieve, Michael Tanzi is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 abduction and strangling of Janet Acosta. A production worker at the ...