Juror 8

Juror 8 (Davis) is the eighth of the twelve jury members and the main protagonist in the teleplay and movie 12 Angry Men.
He was portrayed by the late in the 1957 film, and by the late in the 1997 TV film.
== Personality ==
Juror 8 is at first, the only voice of reason and compassion in the room. When the other jurors choose to find the boy guilty of murder at the beginning of the play, the eighth juror is the only one who disagrees. The eighth juror battles with serious uncertainty and is extremely dubious of the prosecution's evidence because he thinks they have produced an overly certain narrative of events, even though he does not necessarily feel the youngster is innocent. As noted with his conversation with Juror 7 in the washroom, Juror 8 is not entirely 100 percent sure whether the boy is truly guilty or not. Throughout the film, Juror 8 is able to convince the other jurors that the boy isn't guilty. He struggles with convincing Juror 3, who is haunted by his relationship with his son, Juror 10, who lets his ignorance get the best of him, and Juror 7, who simply just doesn't care about the case at all. Still, he manages to successfully convince everyone to vote innocent. By preserving the principle that everyone has the right to a fair trial regardless of race or class, the 8th Juror acts as the voice of American democracy.
==Role==
Juror 8 is a architect who is kind and compassionate. He was called in for jury duty to discuss the case of a teenager boy who was allegedly believed to have stabbed his father to death. The jurors are told to come up a unanimous vote: the boy will receive a death sentence if declared guilty.
Throughout the story, Juror 8 is the only person who votes "not guilty" while almost everyone else votes "guilty". He raises reasonable doubt about the boy. 
As the story goes, Juror 8 manages to point out several omissions that no one could see when the crime happened, which caused the other jurors to change their votes to 'not guilty'. Despite this, he make an enemy of Juror 3 who maintains his "guilty" vote and finally breaks down, revealing that he has a son who hasn't talked to him for 2 years and that the accused boy reminds him of the strained relationship that Juror 3 has with his son, which would explain why he declared his guilty vote.
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