197 Ill. 2d 135 - People v. Jamison

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Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry (2007), 235 Ill. 2d 507 - People v. Delvillar (2009)

72 state decisions

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¶1CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON,

¶2concurring in part and dissenting in part:

¶3I agree with the majority that Jamison’s convictions should be affirmed. In my view, however, his sentence of death cannot be allowed to stand. For the reasons set forth in my partial concurrence and partial 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). Jamison’s sentence of death should therefore be vacated, and he should be sentenced to a term of imprisonment. 720 ILCS 5/9 — 1(j) (West 1994).