Court Opinion

ID: 9707758
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 02:20:49.962317+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:37.839637
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HARRISON, concurring in part and dissenting in part: I agree that Ronald Kliner’s conviction should be upheld. For the reasons set forth in my dissent in People v. Bull, 185 Ill. 2d 179 (1998), however, this state’s present death penalty law does not meet the requirements of the eighth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution (U.S. Const., amends. VIII, XIV) or article I, section 2, of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 2). Accordingly, we should vacate Kliner’s death sentence and remand the cause to the circuit court for imposition of a sentence other than death.