Wayne C. Doty

Wayne Charles Doty (born April 12, 1973) is an American double murderer currently on death row 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 Plant City manufacturing plant during a drug robbery on April 20, 1996. A second prisoner, convicted mass murderer William Edward Wells, was also convicted as an accomplice in Rodriguez's death and sentenced to life without parole, but he was later sentenced to death for killing another prisoner in 2019. As of July 2026 an execution date has not been set.