Governor Devlin has reinstated capital punishment in the state; and the first Oz prisoner scheduled to die is Jefferson Keane, whohuged a Latino in a skirmish set up by the Co's. Before he's executed, Keane donates a kidney to his ailing sister, then turns down lawyer-turned-inmate Tobias Beecher's offer to take up his defense. After Keane's passing, Richard L'Italien -- slaughterer of women -- is executed by lethal injection after he makes a startling admission.

Oz Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - The Routine
• s01e02 - Visits, Conjugal and Otherwise
• s01e03 - God's Chillin'
• s01e04 - Capital P
• s01e05 - Straight Life
• s01e06 - To Your Health
• s01e07 - Plan B
• s01e08 - A Game of Checkers

Oz Show Summary

OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.