"Given the ongoing debate about the appropriateness of death penalty administration in general, the grave shortcomings in this case in particular," Mr. Scott wrote, "basic fairness and moral consciousness dictate that the death penalty not be imposed in this case".
The announcement was widely seen as an attempt to distract attention from their own shortcomings in handling the case.
Still, Ms. Lowry said her review of child fatality reports showed serious shortcomings in the way cases were investigated, even though deaths have declined in recent years.
"The poor quality of evidence presented by chief investigating officer Botha exposed the disastrous shortcomings in the state's case," Mr. Pistorius's lawyer, Barry Roux, said Thursday.
Its weekly episodes exposed enough shortcomings in the prosecution's case against Syed in 2000, when he was a Maryland high school student, that he has been granted a post-conviction hearing, an unusual type of appeal.
Mr Roux told the court that the state had failed to provide evidence of murder, let alone premeditated or planned murder: "The poor quality of evidence presented by the chief investigating officer exposed disastrous shortcomings in the state's case," he said.
The reports, carried by the Iranian Students News Agencyy and the Fars News agency, which both have close ties to the government, quoted a state prosecutor as saying that shortcomings had been found in the case against the American, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, and that a new trial would be held.
The 5,000- to 10,000-strong Liberian community in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has noted shortcomings in the way Duncan's case was handled.
To avoid the shortcoming of probabilistic method in the case of inadequate data, a non-probabilistic uncertainty modeling for the FG nanobeams is developed by quantifying nanomaterial uncertainties as interval parameters.
Fresh demands for a public inquiry into the deaths of four young recruits shot at Deepcut Army barracks were issued last night after a new review revealed serious shortcomings in the way police investigated the cases.
