secure trash frozen. (09' MBP running Yosemite)

I am working on a mid 2009 MBP running the latest Yosemite software. I am in the process of securely deleting the trash, however the items to be deleted has not moved in over 5 minutes. The old way running terminal does not work with Yosemite. So, I am starting out with 54 items to be deleted. Is there a better way on doing this? Should it be faster than this? Do you think it's the computer?