Court Opinion

ID: 9742727
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:19:06.984681+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:35.600340
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE SIMON, dissenting: Even if the majority is correct in its conclusion that holding a second capital sentencing hearing here would not violate the guarantee against double jeopardy, I cannot agree that the defendant should be subjected to another hearing because of my view set forth in the following cases that the Illinois death penalty statute is unconstitutional. See People v. Lewis (1981), 88 Ill. 2d 129, 179 (Simon, J., dissenting), People v. Silagy (1984), 101 Ill. 2d 147, 184 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), and People v. Albanese (1984), 104 Ill. 2d 504, 549 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).