In “Bring Back Flogging” the author, Jeff Jacoby suggests that maybe we should adopt some of the punishments of the puritans. He says that Puritan forefathers punished crimes with whipping and branding, but in current times we tend to put someone in jail, no matter the degree of the crime. Jacoby also tells how often, first and second time offenders don’t get jail time, and if one does wind up in jail, it proves rather dangerous. (Jeff Jacoby 196-198) Jacoby provides a strong argument based on information backed by reliable sources and with logos and pathos. One way his argument is strong is that he provides statistics and information from references that are reliable, boosting his own ethos. The second way is that he uses logos to help persuade