Court Opinion

ID: 9732184
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:11:02.567611+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:24.719485
License: Public Domain

CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON, dissenting: I join in Justice Heiple’s dissent. I write separately simply to express my view that regardless of the outcome on retrial, defendant cannot be sentenced to death. For the reasons set forth in my partial concurrence and partial dissent in People v. Bull, 185 Ill. 2d 179 (1998), the Illinois death penalty law violates the eighth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution (U.S. Const., amends. VIII, XTV) and article I, section 2, of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 2). It is therefore void and unenforceable.