Opinion ID: 2599073
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Heading: Failure of felony-murder special circumstance to narrow death eligible class

Text: Defendant argues the felony-murder special circumstance under which he was rendered death eligible fails to meet minimal Eighth Amendment death penalty standards by failing to narrow the class of death eligible defendants or define a subclass of those more deserving of the death penalty than others. He acknowledges that this court has repeatedly rejected the argument. (See, e.g., People v. Musselwhite (1998) 17 Cal.4th 1216, 1265-1266, 74 Cal.Rptr.2d 212, 954 P.2d 475; People v. Marshall, supra, 50 Cal.3d at pp. 945-946, 269 Cal.Rptr. 269, 790 P.2d 676.) We do so again here.