Joshua Rhett Miller

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Chief Investigative Reporter at Newsweek

Chief Investigative Reporter @Newsweek. Nice guy with a mean streak.

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Articles

What it's like to watch a convicted killer die

2 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

It's chilly and silent inside a witness room adjacent to the execution chamber at Florida State Prison here in Raiford, where Michael Anthony Tanzi will exhale for the final time as the government's retribution for kidnapping and killing Janet Acosta, a beloved Miami Herald employee, during a harrowing four-hour nightmare on April 25, 2000.
Michael Tanzi executed in Florida for deadly 2000 kidnapping

2 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

A death-row inmate who kidnapped, assaulted and killed a stranger on her lunch break 25 years ago died via lethal injection on Tuesday in Florida as hundreds of fervent demonstrators protested the nation's eleventh execution in 2025. Michael Anthony Tanzi, 48, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. local time after receiving a three-drug protocol at Florida State Prison in Raiford, about 45 miles west of Jacksonville.
Too big to kill? Florida prepares to execute 'morbidly obese' inmate

2 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

Almost 25 years to the day he abducted, assaulted and murdered a Miami woman relaxing on her lunch break, Michael Anthony Tanzi is set to pay for his crime with his life, in an execution that his lawyers, activists and religious officials say should not be carried due, in part, to the condemned inmate's size.
Trump and Musk's planned mission to Mars could actually happen, experts say

3 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

The resoluteness of NASA's ambitious vision to send astronauts to Mars-a round-trip voyage of more than a billion miles once limited to science fiction-appears stronger than ever, albeit not without significant technological and physiological hurdles.
symbol of 'white supremacy'

3 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

A New York father and NAACP leader is demanding his school district ditch its new "Spartans" mascot, alleging the warriors from ancient Greece symbolize enslavement and white supremacy. William King Moss III, a father of two second-graders in the Brentwood Union Free School District on Long Island, filed a lawsuit last month claiming the Spartans moniker represents a symbol of "white supremacy" that violates state civil rights and constitutional protections.
Police chief accused of defecating on floor gets support from township

3 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

A New Jersey township is standing behind a police chief accused of defecating on floors and attempting to drug coworkers, insisting overtime reform led to disgruntled officers. North Bergen officials said Thursday the allegations against Police Chief Robert Farley had been referred to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office for review and subsequently sent to the New Jersey State Attorney General's Office.
College student under fire after asking administrators what they do all day

3 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

Taking a page out of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency playbook, college sophomore Alex Shieh had a straightforward question for the thousands of university administrators employed by Brown University, where tuition is approaching six figures a year:What, exactly, do you do?
Former principal accused of raping students for years, court documents show

4 weeks ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

CLOSE X news article Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! A former middle school principal in Delaware allegedly raped and sexually abused a child for years, court documents show. Tasha Purnell—known as Tasha Oliver during her tenure at Alexis I.
Luigi Mangione prosecutors claim witnesses in case have been threatened

1 month ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

CLOSE X news article Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! Luigi Mangione wants access to a laptop while in federal custody, but prosecutors object to the proposal, citing alleged witness threats in the high-profile slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Wendell Grissom Execution: Oklahoma killer's final words and last meal

1 month ago | newsweek.com | Joshua Rhett Miller

CLOSE X news article Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! A former truck driver who confessed to killing a woman as she held her friend's infant during a home invasion two decades ago was executed Thursday in Oklahoma, officials said.