Wayne C. Doty

Wayne 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. However, in 2016, the United States Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida[2] 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, and the jury unanimously voted to sentence him again on May 15. Doty was the only inmate on Florida's death row who has chosen the electric chair over lethal injection as the preferred method of execution.