A Florida death row inmate, whose appeal based on his "morbidly obese" weight was recently rejected by the Florida Supreme Court, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday night. Michael Tanzi, 48, was ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his upcoming execution, arguing that his obesity and health conditions could cause his chosen method of lethal injection to go wrong. Michael ...

A 57-year-old man who was assumed to be morbidly obese and was told as much by some doctors has had a 130-pound benign tumor removed that had been growing for more than a decade. The man’s surgeon ...

A “morbidly obese” convicted killer who kidnapped and strangled a Miami newspaper worker 25 years ago recited a Bible verse and munched on bacon, a candy bar and ice cream leading up to his execution ...

Once weighing in at 630 pounds, David Smith now works as a personal trainer. Aug. 6, 2010 — -- For most of his life, David Smith was overweight, but by age 24 he tipped the scale at a whopping ...

A 500 pound Frenchman's travel odyssey is nearly over, after he spent two weeks stranded in Chicago when the airline that flew him there refused to fly him back. Kevin Chenais, 22, unwillingly found ...