Court Opinion

ID: 9819024
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:18:00.564034+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:35:08.055294
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HARRISON, dissenting: For the reasons set forth in my 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). Accordingly, we should vacate Terrell’s sentence of death and remand the cause to the circuit court for imposition of a sentence other than death.