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Justice Department seeks death penalty for man who killed fellow supermax inmate
The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...
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Key West’s ‘Spirits of the Passage’ exhibit documents maritime slave trade
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...
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Today in Keys History
A correspondent writing from Fort Jefferson at Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas noted that about 40 enslaved workers, all of ...
Inside the Death Chamber: What It's Like to Watch a Convicted Killer Die
Michael Anthony Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Tuesday for the grisly murder of Janet Acosta in 2000. Newsweek was in the room.
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A Florida man is executed for killing a Miami Herald employee
Michael Tanzi received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling death of Janet Acosta.
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Florida man is executed for killing a woman abducted on her lunch break
A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening.