Court Opinion

ID: 9729477
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:37:41.201454+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:58.877051
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). To the extent that the circuit court rejected Ganus’ claim that he should be granted a new sentencing hearing, its judgment should therefore be reversed. Ganus’ sentence of death should be vacated, and the cause should be remanded to the circuit court for imposition of a sentence other than death.