The Stockton Record has this story on a locally notorious murder and the DA's decision to seek the death penalty. It's a good story overall, but I was taken aback by this passage:

Virginia, Scheidegger said, executed Lee Boyd Malvo, also known as the "D.C. Sniper," in less than six years. "And that's entirely doable (in California)," he said.

Of course, it was the mastermind of the D.C. Sniper conspiracy, John Allen Muhammad, who was executed.  I just referred to him as "the D.C. Sniper," as I usually do, when I spoke with the reporter.  The accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo was a juvenile at the time of the crimes and was not executed.

Update:  The Record has corrected the article.

The parenthetical "(in California)" is also added.  I think it is doable to get our state processes done in five years with the proper reforms.  Then the federal courts will have to have deadlines set by implementing Chapter 154, which would be about three years.  Realistically we are looking at about eight years.