Bright v. State

Sears, Justice.

The appellant, Kenneth Bright, was convicted of the murder of his two grandparents and of possession of a controlled substance. The jury sentenced Bright to death for the murders, and the trial court *266sentenced Bright to 15 years in prison on the possession offense.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm Bright’s convictions but reverse his sentence of death.

1. The evidence would have authorized a rational trier of fact to conclude that Bright stabbed his grandmother twenty-one times,, with the fatal wound being a stab wound directly into the heart sac, and that Bright stabbed…