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Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

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Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. A person’s right to liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and life may be curtailed by law, through the criminal justice system. A person’s liberty will be curtailed when he has been tried, convicted, and lawfully incarcerated. This incarceration may also forestall the individual’s pursuit of happiness. In some countries and some states in the United States [such as Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia], the right to life may be legally forfeited if the person had indulged in, or committed a capital crime. In this case, it is clear that these rights are neither absolute, nor accord anyone a carte blanche to breach the law or other people’s rights.

Again, it is important to appreciate the fact that the incarceration and administration of the death penalty [execution] do not actually amount to the withdrawal of this dignity. Mature democracies and civilized or stable countries have repeatedly and consistently treated short-term convicts and death row convicts with dignity, as can be seen in the case of Patrick Sonnier. Sonnier is accorded a clean cell and bedding, balanced meals, access to the library and entertainment, and even the comfort and acquaintance of a pen pal who would later turn to be his spiritual advisor, Sister Helen Prejean, C. S. J. A medical officer is also assigned the responsibility of monitoring Sonnier’s health.

In this case, the withholding of the dignity due to a prisoner who has committed a serious crime is the contravention of any of the rights and freedoms of the prisoner in a manner that is not sanctioned by the law. The withholding of this dignity may therefore take forms such as withholding of food, total severance of links with the outside world, and sexual molestation and abuse, among a litany of other unethical acts against the&nbsp.prisoner.&nbsp.