I have always found Poser rather slow at object deletion... My impression is that it kind of reload a certain number of things...
There's a free tool you could try: Snarlygribbly's Scene Fixer. You will find it in the Poser 11 section here. It contains many tools, among them the ability to delete characters, lights, props, etc...

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