Criminal prosecutors should be held liable for false convictions.

In 1985, a man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. He died in prison in 1999.

Now he has been pardoned posthumously after DNA identified another man, currently in prison, as the actual rapist.

Call me extreme, but I think every criminal defendant deserves the best defense available - and if a prosecutor convicts an innocent person, than that prosecutor should be criminally liable.

Faith in the justice system is eroded when so many people convicted are subsequently found to be entirely innocent. We need a way to make prosecutors more careful. The first is to provide better legal teams to defendants - and the second is to make the prosecutor liable for long prison terms if they convict a person who turns out to be innocent.