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