BY ALL MEANS, GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTS!

Florida inmate wants to be executed immediately and by Ol’ Sparky at that

In 1996, Wayne Doty killed a Plant City manufacturing plant watchman during a robbery for methamphetamines. He received a life sentence for that murder. Then in 2011 at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Doty and another inmate strangled and stabbed inmate Xavier Rodriguez to death. For that murder Doty received the death penalty.

Now Doty, 42, wants to be executed immediately and he wants it to be done in Ol’ Sparky, Florida’s three-legged electric chair. Here is what Doty said on August 12 in a handwritten affidavit:

"I'm invoking my right of free will to choose execution by electrocution due to confliction surrounding executions through lethal injection. My decision on method of execution is a self-driven motive allowing the state of Florida to exercise their duly sworn duties to deliver my sentence in an expeditious manner, thus bringing peace to the victim's family as well as my spiritual freedom."

Doty made out his affidavit shortly after the Florida Supreme Court upheld his punishment in the review required of all death sentences.

Florida is one of eight states that has kept capital punishment by electrocution as an option. Tennessee reinstated electrocution last year in the face of challenges to lethal injection.

Florida executions have been on hold for the past year because of challenges to its method of death by lethal injection. However, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the state’s lethal injection protocol and Jerry Correll, who killed four people in Orlando, is scheduled to be executed next Thursday.

Florida’s Ol’ Sparky was last used in 1999 for the execution of triple murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis. During his electrocution, blood appeared on his face and shirt. During a previous execution in 1997, the mask covering Pedro Medina’s face caught fire and filled the death chamber with smoke.

Doty has waived his rights to any further appeals. The Florida Department of Corrections is reviewing Doty’s request. By all means, give him what he wants!