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Execution Report: Anthony Doyle

Anthony Doyle
Anthony Doyle
Executed on 27 March 2014

Anthony Dewayne Doyle, 29, was executed by lethal injection on 27 March 2014 in Huntsville, Texas for the murder and robbery of a food delivery woman.

On 16 January 2003, in Rowlett in Dallas County, Doyle, then 18, phoned a nearby doughnut shop from his parents' home and placed an order for two dozen doughnuts and two dozen breakfast tacos for delivery. When placing the order, Doyle disguised his voice and gave the name "Mary". When Hyun Cho, 37, arrived with his order, Doyle demanded money from her. When Cho told Doyle that she did not have any money, he hit her in the head with a baseball bat. He then placed her in a trash bin and attempted to clean the blood from his walls and floor. He also placed barbecue sauce over a large bloody area to disguise the blood and repainted one wall. He left the trash bin at a house across the alley.

Doyle then took the food and the victim's car, cell phone, and credit cards and drove to meet some friends. He told them he obtained the car by "hitting a lick," which is street slang for making money very quickly, as in via a robbery. As he shared the food with them, he stated he was not "playing" anymore. They attempted to make purchases with Cho's credit cards. Doyle later abandoned her car at a car wash and threw her possessions into a nearby dumpster.

A woman found Cho's body in her trash bin that same day and called the police, who were already looking for her, since she did not return from the delivery. When officers went to Doyle's parents' home, his sister told them she had just arrived home and noticed a wet brown spot on the carpet and smelled a strong odor of bleach and fresh paint. Police then searched the home and found Doyle's blood-stained clothes, blood spatters on the floor and walls, and tracks from the trash bin's wheels. They then found Cho's possessions in the dumpster, along with the doughnut delivery ticket.

Doyle was arrested the next day in Dallas. He gave a ten-page written confession. "I struck her in the head two times," Doyle stated. "After the second strike, I realized what I was doing and that I had really screwed up badly, so I dropped the bat and started to clean up the blood." A friend arrived shortly afterward. Together, he and his friend brought a trash bin into the house and turned it on its side. They "shoved the lady into the bin" and turned it upright, the confession stated. "When I looked into the bin, the woman looked as if she were breathing, and she also moved her arms as if she were trying to get up."

Doyle stated that he planned the robbery due to intense pressure from his parents and his girlfriend to earn money to help take care of his 3-week-old daughter. He directed officers to where he had hidden his bloody clothing and the murder weapon.

According to evidence presented at Doyle's trial, Cho was struck at least seven times on the head and had numerous other bruises on her hands, arms, and body.

The defense argued that Doyle only intended to rob Cho, not murder her.

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