The jury of twelve ‘angry men’ are entrusted with the power to send him to the electric chair. Nevertheless personalities rather than facts can influence the outcome of a case. In this case we can see the twelve men’s deepseated biases, cultural differences, anger, ignorance, racism and quick judgement.

When they vote some of the jurors make their decisions quickly, others are in two minds so they hesitantly join them. Nevertheless, one dissenting juror (Juror 8) votes ‘not guilty’ because of his reasonable doubt. He forces the other men to reconsider the case against the endangered defendant. He votes not guilty, not because he is sure of the boy’s innocence, but, because he wishes to talk about the serious case without emotionally pre-judging the boy. All of the jurors tell their

Juror 8 tries to canvass the case. He starts discussions about important facts such as defendant’s alibi; the jurors understand the boy’s pshchological situation so they catch why he couldn’t remember the names of the films he saw at the felony night. He must be under an emotional stress. Murder weapon isn’t unusual, Juror 8 proved that with buying a knife identical to the one with which boy allegedly stabbed his father. Besides, they blame the boy being incorrectly but in testimony of the old man and old woman they would testify incorrectly, too. They figure the distance for the lame old man’s walk to his front door, they find the action impossible, time was inefficient. Angle of the stab is the most important fact, Juror 5,who has experience in a slum life, corrects everyone’s notion of the downward angle. Moreover old woman’s eyewitness account; when Juror 4 takes out his glasses,deep marks can be noticed on the sides of his nose, Juror 9 propelled that. They realise same marks on the sides of her nose. She must hav

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