Cruel And Unusual Jeffrey Toobin Summary

Jeffrey Toobin graduated from Harvard University in 1986. A few years after his graduation he had been given an opportunity to work with The New Yorker magazine. The New Yorker magazine is a notable magazine it has been around since 1925. Jeffrey Toobin is still employed with The New Yorker and with CNN since 2002. In the December 23rd & 30th, 2013 issue of The New Yorker magazine he wrote an article called “Cruel and Unusual.” Jeffrey Toobin begins to build his credibility by giving specific dates and by stating facts because Jeffrey Toobin has experience in the criminal justice system because he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. During the time when Toobin was an Assistant U.S. Attorney the death penalty in New York was legal
Toobin’s purpose for listing those chemicals was to exacerbate the extent the United States goes to kill prisoners who are on death row. Also the purpose for the writing the third, fourth, and fifth paragraph was to make the reader understand the cruelty of the prisoners because in those paragraphs he establishes the points that other countries block pharmaceuticals form producing those drugs and that states in the United States are now not using the death penalty but moving to life in prison. This is how Toobin appeals to the logos part of the rhetorical triangle. Moreover, Toobin was able to convey emotions in his article. In paragraph three he talks about how the drugs kill the prisoners. For example, the three drug cocktail cause cardiac arrest. In another instance, he appeals to emotion by stating how prisoners are executed such as electrocution, firing squad, and drugs. He also appeals to the emotions of disgust and sadness. He illustrates this by stating how the United States researches effective way to kill it’s prisoners who are on death row. Which makes the reader wonder, why do they want to kill people? Jeffrey Toobin was effectively to appeal to the pathos part of the rhetorical