Butler v. State

*883OPINION

By the Court, Shearing, C. J.:

Appellant John Butler was convicted by a jury of two counts of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon and was thereafter sentenced by the jury to death. On appeal, we affirm Butler’s convictions, but we vacate his death sentences and remand for a new penalty hearing.

FACTS

I. Guilt phase

John Butler was an influential member of a white supremacist gang known as the Independent Nazi Skinheads (INS). The victims Linn Newborn, an African-American male, and Daniel Shersty, a Caucasian male, were members of a rival nonracist gang known as Skinheads…