Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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(6) whether the alternative purpose to which it may rationally be connected is assignable for it; and (7) whether it appears excessive in relation to the alternative purpose assigned. Id. In applying these factors, only the “clearest proof’ that a law is punitive in effect will overcome a legislative categorization to the contrary. Commonwealth v. Williams, 574 Pa. 487, 505, 832 A.2d 962, 973 (2003). There is not the “clearest proof’ of the seven factors that are required to demonstrate that 24 P.S. § 1 — 111(e)(1) is so punitive in either its purpose or its effect so as to negate the General Assembly’s intent that it be civil in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause. Regarding the first factor, while the lifelong ban from certain employment positions is hars 573, 42 L.Ed. 1002 (1898) . Regarding the third factor, the employment
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that designation is neither a sentence nor a punishment
B. holding that imposition of punishment is a judicial function
C. holding that the jury is not to consider the potential punishment which could result from a conviction
D. holding that prohibiting felons from practicing medicine is not punishment
E. holding that forbidding felons from working as union officials is not punishment
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.