Court Opinion

ID: 9712074
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:45:53.50014+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:09.632093
License: Public Domain

CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON, concurring in part and dissenting in part: I agree that Page’s convictions should not be disturbed. In my view, however, his sentence of death cannot be allowed to stand. 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, XIV) and article I, section 2, of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 2). Page’s sentence of death should therefore be vacated, and the cause should be remanded for imposition of a sentence of imprisonment. 111. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 9 — l(j). Because Page has been found guilty of murdering more than one victim, the term of his imprisonment must be natural life. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 1005 — 8—1(a)(1)(c).