Response to David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates TED-Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYzrdn7YLCM

After watching David R. Dow's ted talk, it changed my view about death row inmate cases. Dow used first person to describe a story and connect personally with the audience. He started by explaining one of his own cases as a attorney, which involved a young boy in a murder case. He used visual representation to show the steps on how a death penalty case would go. Interestingly he used this diagram and then extended the diagram to show how he could prevent death penalty cases when the prisoners are younger, since most of them have a previous past in the judicial system. He used graphs to compel the audience with hard statistical data which swayed his argument.  Dow had a very bold tone, which I would guess he picked up in law school, which captured the audiences view. Additionally he stayed away from monotone and told his first person experience as he was telling a story. His projection and pronunciation was perfect as he was ready for the speech and of course the speaker system helped the speech. His body language was perfect always holding his hands and moving his hands above the waist, which draws the attention to the upper body. Throughout his speech he would correlate his hands with his speech, which made the reader follow the speech easier. Dow had a very slow pace which let the audience understand his speech, as since it was slow we could follow what he was saying. I couldn't really find anything ineffective besides the fact he kind of talked down to the audience but for a good reason, to teach percentages about Texas. Overall I believe his argument is very convincing and I even acknowledged his call of action.