Opinion ID: 1801680
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Delay in the Capital Postconviction Process and Execution of Sentence

Text: Defendant argues that the delay in California's death penalty postconviction process has resulted in an extended incarceration on death row, thus constituting cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the federal Constitution's Eighth Amendment. We have rejected similar claims, and we see no compelling reason to reconsider those decisions here. ( People v. Demetrulias, supra, 39 Cal.4th 1, 45; People v. Dunkle (2005) 36 Cal.4th 861, 942 [32 Cal.Rptr.3d 23, 116 P.3d 494]; People v. Snow, supra, 30 Cal.4th 43, 127.)