Thesis statement: Kristof successfully uses strategies including his research and background knowledge, emotionally loaded language, personal anecdotes, and scientific facts and theories to make a more persuasive argument to his audience.
Topic sentence 1: Kristof uses his research and experience with the death penalty to make a more persuassive argument to his readers’.
Topic sentence 2: Kristof includes many stories of men wrongfully sentenced to death throughout his article which evokes sympathy from his audience.
Topic sentence 3: Throughout Kristof’s article he includes various facts and statistics to support his claims.