The following article On Punishment and Teen Killers, by Jennifer Jenkins, who is a high school teacher, believes teens who commit crimes should go through the same consequences as anyone else. Jenkins has the lowest ethos because she uses more emotion rather than logical statistics to defend her argument. Jenkins provides an example of a teen crime, and how it occurred in her family. Her youngest sister was carrying an unborn child and was shot by a teenager, and his reasoning behind the action was, “see what it would feel like to shoot someone (2).” Jenkins creates agony between her and the reader about this gruesome situation. In addition Jenkins puts the blame on society’s influence on why teens behaviors are creating this outcome. She
