NY Post
Tanzi has been on death row since he was found guilty and sentenced for the murder of 49-year-old Janet Acosta in 2003.
He took her hostage after threatening her with a razor blade and proceeded to sexually assault and strangle her in her own car before abandoning her body in a wooded area nearby in April 2000, according to prosecutors.
Tanzi is supposed to face execution by lethal injection next week, but his defense argued it would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.
An appeal filed last Monday cites the inmate’s litany of health issues spurred by his obesity, including “severe chronic sciatica […] hyperlipidemia, uncontrolled hypertension, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.”
