Opinion ID: 1795830
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Heading: Remaining 3.850 Claims

Text: Sochor claims that he is entitled to relief for constitutional errors, even though otherwise procedurally barred, because he is innocent of the death penalty. We reject the claim because we found on direct appeal that the evidence supported the existence of three aggravating circumstances. Sochor, 619 So.2d at 292; see also Allen v. State, 854 So.2d 1255, 1258 n. 5 (Fla.2003) (holding that innocence of death penalty claim lacks merit because defendant did not allege that all the aggravating circumstances supporting his death sentence were invalid, and because this Court had already conducted a proportionality review on direct appeal). We also reject Sochor's constitutional attack on the rules prohibiting lawyers from contacting jurors because the claim should have been raised on direct appeal and, therefore, is procedurally barred. See Thompson v. State, 759 So.2d 650, 667 n. 12 (Fla.2000). Sochor's claim that Florida's death penalty statute is unconstitutional is also procedurally barred. We rejected this claim on direct appeal. Sochor, 619 So.2d at 293. And Sochor's claim that execution by electrocution or by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment is without merit. See Provenzano v. Moore, 744 So.2d 413, 415 (Fla.1999) (holding that execution by electrocution is not cruel and unusual punishment); Sims v. State, 754 So.2d 657, 668 (Fla.2000) (holding that execution by lethal injection is not cruel and unusual punishment). Finally, our resolution of the preceding claims leads us to reject Sochor's cumulative errors argument. See Bryan v. State, 748 So.2d 1003, 1008 (Fla.1999) ([W]here allegations of individual error are found without merit, a cumulative-error argument based thereon must also fail.).