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On April 25, 2000, Janet Acosta sat in her van at Watson Island during her lunch break, reading a book in the shade. She was 49 years old, a production worker at the Miami Herald, and she was minding her own business in a way that she absolutely should have been allowed to keep doing. She wasn't.

What followed was 140 miles of highway — Miami to the Florida Keys — that ended on Cudjoe Key, in a patch of ground where her body lay for two days before anyone found her. Her killer was 23 years old, had a razor blade, and apparently had nowhere better to be. He confessed. He was convicted. He was sentenced to death in 2003. And then the legal system did what it does: it took its time. Twenty-five years later, on April 8, 2025, Michael Anthony Tanzi was executed by lethal injection in the state of Florida.

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