Ybarra (Perfecto) v. State

Legislature is empowered, within constitutional limits, to define crimes and fix punishments, and this court should not "encroach upon that domain lightly." Schmidt v. State, 94 Nev. 665, 668,

584 P.2d 695, 697

(1978). Consistent with this separation of powers, this court has held that, regardless of its severity, a sentence that is within the statutory limits is not "cruel and unusual punishment unless the statute fixing punishment is unconstitutional or the sentence is so unreasonably disproportionate to the offense as to shock the conscience." Blume v. State, 112 Nev. 472, 475,

915 P.2d 282,…