Court Opinion

ID: 9819043
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:18:06.677972+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:38:28.968743
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HARRISON, concurring in part and dissenting in part: I agree that no basis exists for disturbing Evans’ convictions or the sentence he received for the attempted rape of Adrian Allen. In my view, however, Evans’ death sentence should not be allowed to stand. For the reasons set forth in my dissent in People v. Bull, 185 Ill. 2d 179 (1998), 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 Evans’ death sentence and remand the cause to the circuit court for imposition of a sentence other than death.