We put humans into the legal system to exercise legal judgment, not to substitute the law with their personal moral sentiments. The place for moral sentiments is the legislature.
It should be noted that legislatures have weighed the moral issues, and in most states have set out the recourse for the wrongfully convicted to be statutory restitution, not civil suits against prosecutors. Arizona, one of the two states mentioned in the article, has declined to implement any such statutory restitution.
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We put humans into the legal system to exercise legal judgment, not to substitute the law with their personal moral sentiments. The place for moral sentiments is the legislature.
It should be noted that legislatures have weighed the moral issues, and in most states have set out the recourse for the wrongfully convicted to be statutory restitution, not civil suits against prosecutors. Arizona, one of the two states mentioned in the article, has declined to implement any such statutory restitution.