Court Opinion

ID: 9819040
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:18:06.413948+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:38:28.962813
License: Public Domain

CHIEF JUSTICE FREEMAN, concurring in part and dissenting in part: I fully agree with the court’s conclusion that the circuit court properly dismissed defendant’s post-conviction petition without an evidentiary hearing. I do so without, however, departing from my view that the death penalty in this case is excessive, as pointed out in my dissent on direct appeal. See People v. Williams, 173 Ill. 2d 48, 95-100 (1996) (Freeman, J., dissenting). Because I am still of the opinion that a sentence other than death is appropriate in this case, I do not join in that portion of today’s opinion which directs the clerk of the court to set a date of execution.