Wayne Charles Doty (born April 12, 1973)[1] is an American double murderer currently on death row for the May 17, 2011 murder of 21-year-old fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez.[2]
Wayne C. Doty | |
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 Mugshot of Doty | |
| Born | Wayne Charles Doty April 12, 1973 |
| Criminal status | Incarcerated at Union Correctional Institution |
| Conviction(s) | First degree murder (x2) |
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| Details | |
| Victims | 2 |
| Date | April 20, 1996 and May 17, 2011 |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Florida |
Date apprehended | 1997, 2011 |
Doty was sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to killing Xavier Rodriguez, a fellow inmate he stabbed and strangled to death while he was serving a life sentence for the fatal shooting of Harvey Horne II, a night watchman at a Plant City manufacturing plant during a drug robbery on April 20, 1996.[3][4][5]
As of June 2024[update] an execution date has not been set.[6]
Death sentence
editWayne Doty was first sentenced to death on June 5, 2013; that sentence was upheld by the Florida Supreme Court in July 2013. Once Doty's case went back to the trial court that sentenced him for post-conviction appeals, he initially asked the lower court to dismiss his attorney and waive all his appeals.[7] However, in 2016, the United States Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida[8] declared Florida's capital sentencing laws unconstitutional. The old law called for a majority vote of the jury to sentence a defendant to death.[9] The new law calls for a unanimous jury vote of death in order to sentence a defendant to death. In 2016 Doty's first death sentence was thrown out. He was retried two years later, and the jury unanimously voted to sentence him to death again on May 15, 2018. Although Florida has yet to set Doty's execution date, Doty is the only inmate on Florida's death row who has chosen the electric chair over lethal injection as the preferred method of execution.[10]
Serialisation
editIn 2018, the Netflix program I Am a Killer featured Doty in the 10th episode.[11]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Inmate Population Information Detail - Wayne C. Doty". Florida Department of Corrections. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ "Florida prison inmate seeking electric chair tried to slit prison lover with knife". naplesnews.com. October 23, 2015.
- ^ "These are the inmates on Tampa Bay's death row". abc action news. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
- ^ "FindLaw's Supreme Court of Florida case and opinions". Findlaw.
- ^ "2 Florida killers, including the 'Mayport Monster,' vie to be worst of their kind". The Florida Times Union. March 2, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
- ^ "Upcoming Executions". Death Penalty Information Center. June 12, 2024. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
- ^ "Doty v. Law". findlaw.com. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
- ^ "Hurst v. Florida". oyez.org. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ "Storm of the Decade: The Aftermath of Hurst v. Florida & Why the Storm Is Likely to Continue University of Miami Law Review". University of Miami. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
- ^ "Inmate becomes state's first to demand the electric chair". Tampa Bay Times. October 22, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
- ^ "Wayne Doty: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". heavy.com. October 22, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2020.