Commonwealth v. Speight

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a sentence of death imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. 1 Following a jury trial, appellant was convicted of two counts of first degree murder, 2 two counts of aggravated assault, 3 one count of criminal conspiracy to commit murder, 4 and one count of possession of an instrument of crime. 5 The jury concluded that the two aggravating circumstances 6 it found outweighed the one mitigating circumstance 7 it found, and returned a sentence of death on each murder conviction.

At the conclusion of the trial,…