Wayne Charles Doty (born April 12, 1973) is an

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currently on

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for the May 17, 2011, murder of 21-year-old fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez. 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

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manufacturing plant during a drug robbery on April 20, 1996. an execution date has not been set.

Death sentence

Wayne Doty was first sentenced to death on June 5, 2013; that sentence was upheld by the

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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'' 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 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

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over

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as the preferred method of execution.

Serialisation

In 2018, the

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program '' I Am a Killer'' featured Doty in the 10th episode.

References

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Death sentence

Serialisation

See also

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