In your response discuss HOW the play position us to think about the jury system.

“ It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”

- Sir William Blackstone (Commentaries on the laws of England).

Can anyone on the face of this planet admit with pride that humans are capable of being completely and utterly just? Can we openly announce that our legal system has sentenced the right people? Or has it resulted in executing innocent people who have been falsely accused?

Reginald Rose questions her confidence in the American legal system in her play Twelve Angry Men, who have the task of determining a sixteen-year-old boy’s fate as an innocent or a murderer.

It can be clearly illustrated how a variety of factors, such as one’s personal prejudices, assumptions and desire to cut off a criminal from accessing society can obscure the truth.

“8th Juror: [To 3rd Juror] You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts.” (Page 37)

The site http://archive.aclu.org/library/va-dp-sum.html show some statistics of those executed in Virginia

- Dr. Harold C. Urey (http://radfilms.com/rosenberg_case.html)

Twelve Angry Men is a play that reflects autonomous ideology, tolerance and reason. Questioning the efficiency of the American legal system, it clearly signifies the dangers of an unfair trial. Lives are at stake, justices itself is at stake should an innocent person by punished. Our personal prejudices, the risks involved in releasing a criminal into a community, and executing an innocent and having no possible way to justify that.

“3rd Juror: God damn it! I’ll kill him! I’ll kill him!

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