Wayne C. Doty

Wayne Charles Doty
Born (1973-04-12) April 12, 1973
Pueblo, Colorado
Occupation Welder
Criminal status Incarcerated at Florida State Prison
Criminal charge 2 counts of first-degree murder
Penalty Death by electric chair[1]
Details
Victims Two
Date April 20, 1996 and May 17, 2011
Country United States
State(s) Florida
Date apprehended
 1997, 2011

Wayne C. Doty (April 12, 1973) is an American double murderer currently on death row for the April 20, 1996 Plant City, Florida murder of Harvey Horne II and the May 17, 2011 murder of fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez.[2]

Doty was sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to killing a fellow inmate he stabbed and strangled to death while he was serving a life sentence for the fatal shooting of a night watchman at a Plant City manufacturing plant during a drug robbery in 1996. Doty landed on death row only after killing another inmate, Xavier Rodriguez years later in 2011.[3]

New Death Sentence

Wayne Doty's first death sentence was given on June 5, 2013 and was upheld by the Florida Supreme Court in July 2013. Following that decision, Mr. Doty served a notice pursuant to Florida Statute to the warden, requesting to be executed by the electric chair instead of lethal injection. [4] Once Mr. 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. However, in 2016, the United States Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida [5] declared Florida's capital sentencing laws unconstitutional. The old law called for a majority vote of the jury to sentence a defendant to death. The new law calls for a unanimous jury vote of death in order to sentence a defendant to death. In 2016, Mr. Doty's first death sentence was thrown out. He was retried in 2018. The jury unanimously voted for death and he was sentenced to death again on May 15, 2018. He remains on death row at Florida State Prison and plans to waive all his appeals once his direct appeal is over.

References

  1. ↑ "Florida death row inmate becomes state's first to demand the electric chair". 22 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Fazan, Sarina (15 July 2017). "Death row inmate requests electric chair, Florida law may make it possible".
  3. ↑ "FindLaw's Supreme Court of Florida case and opinions". Findlaw.
  4. ↑ "Florida death row inmate becomes state's first to demand the electric chair". 22 October 2015.
  5. ↑ https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/14-7505. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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