| Pro | Betsy | Bartholet | Law
professor & attorney with NAACP Legal Defense Fund. |
| | | | SPDC - Southern Prisoners Defense Committee |
| | Steve | Bright | Director of the SPDC. |
| | Bryan | Stevenson | Harvard Law student and a Legal intern with the SPDC. |
| | Henry | | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Walter | McMillian | Convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Aka: Johnny D. |
| 1 | | | Mockingbird Players |
| | Robert E. | Lee Key | Monroe County judge. |
| | Eva | Ansley | Bryan's friend. |
| | Willie | Tabb | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Vernon | Madison | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Jesse | Morrison | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Harry | Nicks | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Harper | Lee | American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird. |
| | Gregory | Peck | American actor. |
| | Atticus | Finch | Fictional character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. |
| | Scout | | Atticus's daughter. |
| | Tom | Robinson | The wrongly accused black defendant in To Kill a Mockingbird. |
| | Minnie Belle | McMillian | Walter's wife. |
| | Karen | Kelly | Walter's mistress. |
| | Joe | | Karen's husband. |
| | | | Jim Crow laws - enforced racial segregation in Southern U.S. |
| | Tony | Pace | Convicted for violating Alabama's racial integrity laws. |
| | Mary | Cox | Convicted for violating Alabama's racial integrity laws. |
| | John | Tompkins | Lawyer believes racial integrity laws
are unconstitutional. |
| | Russell | Charley | One of the murder victims prompted by an interracial romance. |
| | Ronda | Morrison | One of the murder victims. |
| | Miles | Jackson | One of the suspects in Ronda Morrison's murder. |
| | Rick | Blair | Owner of Jackson Cleaners. |
| | Tom | Tate | Monroe County sheriff. |
| | Ralph | Myers | Karen's new lover. |
| | Vickie Lynn | Pittman | One of the murder victims. |
| | Isaac | Dailey | Falsely accused by Myers of committing the Pittman murder. |
| 2 | | | Stand |
| | Charles | Bliss | Bryan's law school classmate. |
| | Lourida | Ruffin | One of the inmates who died in jail. |
| 3 | | | Trials and Tribulation |
| | Simon | Benson | ABI lead investigator. |
| | Larry | Ikner | District attorney's investigator. |
| | Michael | Donald | Hate crime victim. |
| | Ted | Pearson | Monroe County District Attorney. |
| | Bill | Hooks | Jailhouse informant. |
| | Evelyn | Smith | Walter's sister. |
| | Jimmy | Hunter | Walter's mechanic friend. |
| | Ernest | Welch | Ronda Morrison's uncle. |
| | John | Evans | One of the inmates electrocuted at Holman's execution chamber. |
| | Arthur | Jones | One of the inmates electrocuted at Holman's execution chamber. |
| | Russ | Canan | Attorney with the SPDC in Atlanta. |
| | George | Wallace | Former Governor of Alabama. |
| | J. L. | Chestnut | One of the black criminal lawyers. |
| | Bruce | Boynton | One of the black criminal lawyers. |
| | Amelia | Robinson | Boynton's mother. |
| | Wayne | Ritter | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Jesse | Morrison | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Vernon | Madison | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Willie | Tabb | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Willie | Williams | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Claude | Raines | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Gregory | Acres | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Neil | Owens | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Earl | McGahee | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Albert | Jefferson | One of the black men on death row tried by all-white juries. |
| | Joe | Duncan | One of the white condemned prisoners. |
| | Grady | Bankhead | One of the white condemned prisoners. |
| | Colon | Guthrie | One of the white condemned prisoners. |
| | Johnny | | Walter's son. |
| | Joe | Hightower | One of the witnesses in Walter's trial. |
| 4 | | | The Old Rugged Cross |
| | Michael | Lindsey | One of the white condemned prisoners. |
| | Horace | Dunkins | One of the white condemned prisoners. |
| | David | Bagwell | Lindsey's lawyer. |
| | Guy | Hunt | Former Governor of Alabama. |
| | Herbert | Richardson | Vietnam War veteran. One of the condemned inmates. |
| | William | Rehnquist | Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. |
| | Rena Mae | | One of the casualties in Herbert's bombing. |
| | MaryLynn | | One of the casualties in Herbert's bombing. |
| | Doris | | Eva and Bryan's receptionist. |
| | Brenda | Lewis | Eva and Bryan's new investigator. |
| 5 | | | Of the Coming of John |
| | Armelia | Hand | Walter's older sister |
| | Jackie | | Walter's daughter. |
| | Johnny | | One of Walter's son. |
| | Boot | | One of Walter's son. |
| | Giles | | Walter's nephew. |
| | Sam | Crook | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Darnell | Houston | New witness in Walter's case. |
| | Tom | Chapman | The new Monroe County district attorney. Aka: Tommy. |
| | Ted | Pearson | Former district attorney. |
| 6 | | | Surely Doomed |
| | Charlie | | A fourteen year old who shot and killed a man. |
| | George | | The man Charlie killed. Charlie's mother's boyfriend. |
| | Mr. and Mrs. | Jennings | Charlie's benefactor. |
| 7 | | | Justice Denied |
| | Martin Luther | King Jr. | American Christian minister and activist. |
| | John | Patterson | Former Governor of Alabama. |
| | Michael | O'Connor | One of Brian's new hired lawyer. |
| | Vic | Pittman | Vickie's father. |
| | Mozelle | | One of Vickie's aunts. |
| | Onzelle | | One of Vickie's aunts. |
| | Megan | Kanka | A seven-year-old girl who was raped and murdered. |
| 8 | | | All God's Children |
| | Trina | Garnett | Youngest of twelve children. |
| | Walter | Garnett | Trina's father. |
| | Edith | Garnett | Trina's mother. |
| | Lynn | | One of Trina's sisters. |
| | Lynda | | One of Trina's sisters. |
| | Edy | | Trina's older sister. |
| | Francis | Newsome | Trina's friend. |
| | Howard | Reed | Delaware County Circuit Judge. |
| | Ian | Manuel | Charged with armed robbery and attempted homicide. |
| | Debbie | Baigre | Ian's victim. |
| | Antonio | Nuñez | Youngest person in the U.S. condemned to die in prison. |
| | José | | Antonio's brother. |
| | Juan | Perez | Nuñez's accomplished. |
| | Roy | Wright | Wrongfully
convicted of rape. Sentenced to death in Alabama. |
| | Eugene | Williams | Wrongfully convicted of rape.
Sentenced to death in Alabama. |
| | George | Stinney | Fourteen-year-old black boy, executed by the State. |
| | | Stoll | Court judge. |
| | Olin | Johnston | Former Governor of South Carolina. |
| 9 | | | I'm Here |
| | Brenda | Lewis | Brian's paralegal and former Montgomery police officer. |
| | Don | Valeska | Assistant Attorney General. |
| | Doug | | Don's brother and the district attorney in Houston County. |
| | Thomas B. | Norton Jr. | The new judge on Walter's case. |
| | Mrs. | Williams | Community representative at the hearing. |
| | Omar | Mohabbat | One of the doctors from Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility. |
| | Norman | Poythress | One of the doctors from Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility. |
| | Kamal | Nagi | One of the doctors from Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility. |
| | Bernard | Bryant | One of the doctors from Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility. |
| 10 | | | Mitigation |
| | Avery | Jenkins | Mentally ill man on death row. |
| | Dorothea | Dix | American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill. |
| | Reverend L. | Dwight | Social reformer and clergyman. |
| | George | Daniel | Mentally ill man on Alabama's death row. |
| | Ed | Seger | The doctor who examined George. |
| | Jefferson | Davis | The president of the Confederacy. |
| 11 | | | I'll Fly Away |
| | Robert | Robinson | African American civil rights lawyer. Aka: Robbie. |
| | Robert | Vance | Federal appeals court judge. |
| | Sharon | | Bryan's receptionist. |
| | Bernard | Harcourt | Bryan's new lawyer. |
| | Mia | | Bernard's girlfriend. |
| | L. B. | Sullivan | Public Safety Commissioner. |
| | Walt | Harrington | Washington Post journalist. |
| | Pete | Earley | Walt's friend. |
| | Ed | Bradley | American journalist. |
| | Tom | Taylor | One of the new ABI investigators. |
| | Greg | Cole | One of the new ABI investigators. |
| | Ken | Nunnelly | Lawyer from the attorney general's office. |
| | Václav | Havel | The great Czech leader. |
| | Pamela | Baschab | Former Judge at Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. |
| 12 | | | Mother, Mother |
| | Marsha | Colbey | Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. |
| | Glen | Colbey | Marsha's husband. |
| | Joshua | | Marsha's youngest son. |
| | | Timothy | Marsha's stillborn son. |
| | Debbie | Cook | Marsha's neighbor. |
| | Kenneth | Lewellen | Police officer. |
| | Kathleen | Enstice | Forensic pathologist. |
| | Dennis | McNally | State's expert witness. |
| | Werner | Spitz | The doctor who discredited by Enstice's conclusion. |
| | Bridget | Lee | Charged with capital murder and wrongfully imprisoned. |
| | Diane | Tucker | Victoria's sister. |
| | Victoria | Banks | Intellectually disabled black woman. |
| | Efernia | McClendon | Imprisoned after having given birth to stillborn babies. |
| | Diane | Jones | Wrongly convicted and sentenced to die in prison. |
| | Charlotte | Morrison | Senior attorney at EJI. |
| | Kristen | Nelson | Staff attorney. |
| | Marian | Edelman | Founder of the Children's Defense Fund. |
| | John Paul | Stevens | Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice. |
| | Elaine | Jones | Former director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. |
| 13 | | | Recovery |
| | Randall Dale | Adams | American who was wrongfully convicted murder. |
| | Errol | Morris | American film director primarily of documentaries. |
| | Pete | Earley | Author of Circumstantial Evidence. |
| | Rob | McDuff | Bryan's old friend. |
| | John | Thompson | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Harry | Connick Sr. | District attorney. |
| 14 | | | Cruel and Unusual |
| | Michael | Gulley | One of the boys who robbed Ms. Bruner's house. |
| | Nathan | McCants | One of the boys who robbed Ms. Bruner's house. |
| | Joe | Sullivan | One of the boys who robbed Ms. Bruner's house. |
| | Lena | Bruner | Rape victim. |
| | Ashley | Jones | Convicted of killing two family members. |
| | Evan | Miller | Another teenager condemned to die in prison. |
| | Cole | Cannon | Evan's neighbor. |
| 15 | | | Broken |
| | James | Cochran | Death row inmate found not guilty and was freed. Aka: Bo. |
| | Robert | Tarver | Executed inmate. |
| | Maria | Morrison | EJI's social worker. |
| | Randy | Susskind | EJI's deputy director. |
| | Jimmy | Callahan | One of the executed inmates. |
| | Danny | Bradley | One of the executed inmates. |
| | Max | Payne | One of the executed inmates. |
| | Jack | Trawick | One of the executed inmates. |
| | Willie | McNair | One of the executed inmates. |
| | David | Nelson | One of the condemned inmates. |
| | Sandra Day | O'Connor | Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. |
| | Jimmy | Dill | Intellectually disabled condemned inmate. |
| | Paul | Farmer | American medical anthropologist and physician. |
| | Rosa | Parks | American activist in the civil rights movement. |
| | Johnnie | Carr | President of the Montgomery Improvement Association. |
| | Virginia | Durr | American white civil rights activist and lobbyist. |
| | Clifford | Durr | Virginia's husband. |
| 16 | | | The Stonecatchers' Song of Sorrow |
| | Phillip | Shaw | Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in Missouri. |
| | Dante | Evans | Fourteen-year-old child living with abusive father. |
| | Anthony Ray | Hinton | One of the death row inmates. |
| | Joshua | Carter | One of the death row inmates. |
| | Robert | Caston | One of the death row inmates. |
| | Carol | Kolinchak | Lawyer at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana. |
