Stark, Florida – A man convicted of killing a woman who was stolen at the lunch break from her job in Miami Herald will be executed on Tuesday evening.
With the exception of late delay, Michael Nazi is scheduled to get fatal injection in Florida’s state prison for kidnapping in April 2000 and strangled Janet Acosta.
A production worker in the newspaper, the victim was beaten, stolen, pushed to Florida Keys, then strangled and left her body on an island.
Nazi, 48, will become a third prisoner in the death row in Florida this year, with another deadly injection scheduled for May 1 under the death orders signed by state governor Ron Desantis.
Michael Nazi, 48, was convicted of rape and killing for 2000 for an employee of the Miami Herald newspaper.
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The court records show that the victim was on a break from her job in the newspaper on April 25, 2000. She was sitting on her truck, who reads a book when she approached her, Yazzi, asked for a cigarette and then started punching her face.
“Her wrist and threatening her with a barber blade,” The records of the court, Tanzi, are heading, heading to his home, south of Miami, where he stopped at a gas station and a restricted and restricted fuel. He took $ 53 in cash, along with its bank card.
Then they moved to the city of Florida Keys Town Tavirne, where I used the Aquosta Bank card to steal money from its account, according to the records. They added that Tanzi bought adhesive tape and shaving blades, and then decided to have to be forced to kill Acosta.
“He went to an isolated area in Cudjoe Key, and told her that he would kill her, and began to strangle her,” according to the State Committee on Capital Issues. “Stop put a sticky tape on her mouth, nose, and eyes in an attempt to calm her and then strangle her until her validity ended.”
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Meanwhile, his friends and colleagues in Acosta have told her to lose when she did not return from her break. This led to the police to its truck, which led it to Ki West. Police said that Nazi confessed to the crime and showed investigators as he left the body of Acosta.
“If she allows her to leave, I will have been arrested faster,” Tanzi told officers, according to the record. “I didn’t want to arrest. I was enjoying a lot … I told her, I say:” I can’t let you leave. If you allow you to leave, you will be in a lot of trouble. “
I am convicted of first -class murder, theft, kidnapping and armed theft. A jury in Monroe Province recommended the death sentence to a 12-0 vote to kill Acosta.
He made several calls, nothing successful. Florida’s Supreme Court recently rejected his claim that it should not be executed because it “suffers from obesity” and has sciatica, which may cause unconstitutional levels of pain. The court ruled that his appeal was not at the appropriate time because its conditions were known since 2009.
“In addition, this court looked and rejected similar arguments based on obesity and intravenous procedures,” the judges spent.
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Two other convicted killers in Florida have been executed this year. Edward James, 63, was executed on March 20 to kill a 8 -year -old girl and found her during a night of severe drinking and drug use.
James Dennis Ford, 64, was executed on February 13 for killing a husband and wife on a remote farm in an attack by the couple’s child, who survived this ordeal.