Opinion ID: 2590549
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Delay in Carrying Out the Death Penalty

Text: Defendant argues that his death sentence, confinement, and eventual execution all violate various federal and state constitutional guarantees as well as international law because he has been on death row for nearly more than twelve years waiting for his automatic appeal to go forward.... He submits no reason for reexamining our consistent determination that delay inherent in the automatic appeal process is not a basis for concluding that either the death penalty itself, or the process leading to its execution, is cruel and unusual punishment. [Citations.] ( People v. Anderson (2001) 25 Cal.4th 543, 606, 106 Cal.Rptr.2d 575, 22 P.3d 347.) Additionally, any reliance on international law or extraterritorial decisional law has no bearing on the validity of a death sentence that satisfies federal and state constitutional mandates. ( People v. Brown, supra, 33 Cal.4th at pp. 403-404, 15 Cal.Rptr.3d 624, 93 P.3d 244; see ante, 30 Cal.Rptr.3d at p. 490, 114 P.3d at p. 738-739.)