”’Wayne Charles Doty”’ (born April 12, 1973)<ref name=”DOC”>{{cite web|url=http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=375690&TypeSearch=AI|title=Inmate Population Information Detail – Wayne C. Doty|publisher=[[Florida Department of Corrections]]|access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> is an [[Americans|American]] double [[Murder|murderer]] currently on [[death row]] for the May 17, 2011, murder of 21-year-old fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/blogs/political-fix-florida/2015/10/23/florida-prison-inmate-wants-electric-chair-faces-monday-hearing/86070908/ |title=””Florida prison inmate seeking electric chair tried to slit prison lover with knife”|website=naplesnews.com|date=October 23, 2015}}</ref>
”’Wayne Charles Doty”’ (born April 12, 1973)<ref name=”DOC”>{{cite web|url=http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=375690&TypeSearch=AI|title=Inmate Population Information Detail – Wayne C. Doty|publisher=[[Florida Department of Corrections]]|access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> is an [[Americans|American]] double [[Murder|murderer]] currently on [[death row]] for the May 17, 2011, murder of 21-year-old fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/blogs/political-fix-florida/2015/10/23/florida-prison-inmate-wants-electric-chair-faces-monday-hearing/86070908/ |title=””Florida prison inmate seeking electric chair tried to slit prison lover with knife”|website=naplesnews.com|date=October 23, 2015}}</ref>
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, Florida|Plant City]] manufacturing plant during a drug robbery on April 20, 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/news-photo-gallery/these-are-the-inmates-on-tampa-bays-death-row|title=””These are the inmates on Tampa Bay’s death row”|website=abc action news|access-date=June 28, 2020}} </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/fl-supreme-court/1707333.html|title=FindLaw’s Supreme Court of Florida case and opinions.|website=Findlaw}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20120302/NEWS/801256992%3ftemplate|title=””2 Florida killers, including the ‘Mayport Monster,’ vie to be worst of their kind”|website=The Florida Times Union|date=March 2, 2012|access-date=June 28, 2020}} </ref> A second prisoner, William Wells, was also convicted as an accomplice in Rodriguez’s death and sentenced to life without parole.<ref name=”Doty v. State (2025)”/><ref>{{cite news |title=2 Florida killers, including the ‘Mayport Monster,’ vie to be worst of their kind |date=March 2, 2012 |work=The Florida Times-Union |url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2012/03/02/2-florida-killers-including-mayport-monster-vie-be-worst-their-kind/15874113007/ }}</ref>
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, Florida|Plant City]] manufacturing plant during a drug robbery on April 20, 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/news-photo-gallery/these-are-the-inmates-on-tampa-bays-death-row|title=””These are the inmates on Tampa Bay’s death row”|website=abc action news|access-date=June 28, 2020}} </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/fl-supreme-court/1707333.html|title=FindLaw’s Supreme Court of Florida case and opinions.|website=Findlaw}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20120302/NEWS/801256992%3ftemplate|title=””2 Florida killers, including the ‘Mayport Monster,’ vie to be worst of their kind”|website=The Florida Times Union|date=March 2, 2012|access-date=June 28, 2020}} </ref> A second prisoner, William Wells, was also convicted as an accomplice in Rodriguez’s death and sentenced to life without parole<ref name=”Doty v. State (2025)”/><ref>{{cite news |title=2 Florida killers, including the ‘Mayport Monster,’ vie to be worst of their kind |date=March 2, 2012 |work=The Florida Times-Union |url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2012/03/02/2-florida-killers-including-mayport-monster-vie-be-worst-their-kind/15874113007/ }}</ref>
{{asof|June 2024}} an execution date has not been set.<ref>{{cite web |title=Upcoming Executions |publisher=Death Penalty Information Center |date=June 12, 2024 |url=https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/upcoming-executions |access-date=June 16, 2024}}</ref>
{{asof|June 2024}} an execution date has not been set.<ref>{{cite web |title=Upcoming Executions |publisher=Death Penalty Information Center |date=June 12, 2024 |url=https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/upcoming-executions |access-date=June 16, 2024}}</ref>
American murderer on death row
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]
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] A second prisoner, convicted mass murderer William Wells, was also convicted as an accomplice in Rodriguez’s death and sentenced to life without parole,[6][7] but he was later sentenced to death for killing another prisoner in 2019.[8]
As of June 2024[update] an execution date has not been set.[9]
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.[10] However, in 2016, the United States Supreme Court in Hurst v. Florida[11] declared Florida’s capital sentencing laws unconstitutional. The old law called for a majority vote of the jury to sentence a defendant to death.[12] 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.[13]
On January 16, 2025, the Florida Supreme Court dismissed Doty’s appeal.[6]
In 2018, the Netflix program I Am a Killer featured Doty in the 10th episode.[14]
- ^ “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.
- ^ a b Doty v. State [2025], Florida Supreme Court (United States).
- ^ “2 Florida killers, including the ‘Mayport Monster,’ vie to be worst of their kind”. The Florida Times-Union. March 2, 2012.
- ^ “After seven killings, ‘Mayport Monster’ William Wells gets death sentence”. The Gainesville Sun. May 25, 2021.
- ^ “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.
