A Man Is Guilty In Twelve Angry Men By Reginald Rose

A man is innocent until proven guilty. In the play Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose a young man is accused of first-degree murder for the killing of his father. The young man is only sixteen years old. He grew up in a slum his whole life, lost his mother at a young age, and has been beaten majority of his life by his father. If found guilty of murder, he will be sentenced to the death penalty. All evidence directs the boy to the electric chair. Therefore, the defendant in Twelve Angry Men is guilty of the killing of his father. He's found guilty due to him being witnessed killing his father, the purchase of a life and the loss of memory suspicion. Two people witnessed the young man kill his own father. During the time of the crime a women say the boy kill his father from across the street, along with an older gentleman below the boy's apartment over hear the killing. "Look, there was on alleged eyewitness to the killing. Someone else claims he heard the killing then saw the boy running out afterward" (Rose 20). An old man testifies he heard fighting in the apartment above his own. He over heard the boy yell "I'm going to kill you", then a second later heard a body fall to …show more content…
However; when the police questioned the movies the boy saw or he people within them, the boy couldn't remember. "He claims that he stayed home until eleven thirty and then went to one of those all-night movies...No one at the theater identified him. He couldn't even remember the names of the pictures he saw" (22). The young man testifies that he left early before the killing even happened and then returned at three int he morning. However, no one saw the boy leave his apartment building, no one could identify him at the theater, and he couldn't remember what he saw that night. It's very obvious the boy was feeding the authorities