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After Capitol correspondent Mike Vasilinda’s story last month about some death row inmates not wanting their sentences reduced to life without parole, A two time Tampa killer on death row wrote to say death was preferable to life in prison. Mike Vasilinda interviewed Wayne Doty this morning and says the killer has ended his appeals.

Wayne Doty got life in prison for a meth fueled murder in 1996. The five years ago, while in the general population, he killed another inmate, plead guilty and got death.

“He had like two years to go on his sentence and was going home a free man, but he decided to steal something that didn’t belong to him. That happens in prison everyday” Doty told us.

Doty has asked the courts to stop his appeals.

“And I believe that a man is entitled to their own destiny, their own choices.”

We interviewed Doty because he wrote to us to say he didn’t want another life sentence. that’s a possibility thought after the death sentencing scheme in Florida was declared unconstitutional.

He describes life in the general population as horrific and lacking hope.

“They steal, they rob. they do anything they can by any means to survive in that environment.”

“You’re really making the case that life on death row is better than general population.

“oh Yeah!”

“I mean, death row has actually got better living conditions?”

“Oh yeah.

“But you don’t want to die?”

“No, anybody in their right mind isn’t ready to die.”

The Supreme Court’s decision whether the men and women on death row stay there, or go back to life imprisonment could be weeks or months away.

“And I know how I feel, waking up every day with life in prison with no family. No friends” says Doty.

And Doty sounded like a man conflicted…resigned  to die, but saying the choice is out of his hands.

Doty is also the only death row inmate to say he wants to die in the electric chair instead of lethal injection, which is his choice under the statutes. He told us he never liked needles.