Court Opinion

ID: 9745355
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 22:51:01.819933+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:26:22.957514
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE SIMON, also dissenting: I join Chief Justice Clark’s dissent. In addition, for the reasons set forth in my separate opinions in People v. Lewis (1981), 88 Ill. 2d 129, 179 (Simon, J., dissenting), in People v. Silagy (1984), 101 Ill. 2d 147, 184 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), and in People v. Albanese (1984), 104 Ill. 2d 504, 549 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), I believe that the Illinois death penalty statute is unconstitutional and that the death sentence in this case should be vacated.