The death penalty remains quite a controversial issue in today’s society. David B. Muhlhausen further address his stance on the death penalty in his article published September 29, 2014 on the U.S. In his article How the Death Penalty Saves Lives, he defends his stance towards the death penalty issue. David B. Muhlhausen is a man of expertise and knowledge of criminal justice. He attempts to persuade readers with his knowledge to justify his reason the death penalty is just. Muhlhausen justifies the death penalty throughout his argument with the use of ethos, logos, and pathos in order to convince his audience. He provides facts, statistics, and logical reasoning to aid his logos, he appeals to pathos with people’s emotion, and overall establishing…show more content… He gives the facts of Ringo’s case up to Ringo’s execution. Muhlhausen utilizes the facts to establish a more structured argument. An argument with facts as its foundation. It allows the audience to know all the information and for the audience to come to their own conclusion. Muhlhausen not pressuring the audience to agree with him and giving them all the facts pushes the audience to further read his article and hear out his argument.
Following the facts of the case, Muhlhausen again utilizes logos by offering statistics and facts about the death penalty to his audience. He states information provided by polls, studies, and investigations administer about the death penalty. He thoroughly lays out all the information by including stats, years, percentages, and researched information. This allows the audience the tools to reach his or her own opinion towards the death penalty without any biasness from Muhlhausen stance.
Muhlhausen additionally offers a sense of credibility with in the logos of statistics and facts. For example, he provides statistics and facts from credible scholars and universities to appeal to ethos within the…show more content… His logic argument appeals to logos. His claim is that if all the studies point at the death penalty actually helping save live, then he is right. The audience cannot dispute Muhlhausen’s argument. Since he provides the audience with the facts and statistics. He constructs a logic and sound argument throughout his article that establishes a logos appeal. Muhlhausen’s argument is simple enough to follow along and allows the audience to grasp his opinion on the death penalty. It’s an effective rhetoric that displays reason and logic for the
