Originally Posted by djplong

I honestly believe that there are some crimes so heinous that, by committing them, you forfeit your right to life.

That being said, the burden of proof for a conviction is "beyond a reasonable doubt". The burden for the death penalty should be akin to "beyond a shadow of a doubt".

Anyone who saw 60 minutes last Sunday watched prosecutorial misconduct in action. A man loses 25 years of his life because a prosecutor withholds evidence that would have exonerated him (DNA evidence finally freed him - but only after a years-long battle to even get it considered). While in prison, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife in front of their child, he lost everything. He said he bottomed out when, after 12 years, his son said he no longer wanted to be forced to see him.

The prosecutor belongs in jail for the remainder of the sentence that this man was given (life).