Donald Groves

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Donald Groves is a fictional character on the HBO prison drama Oz, played by Sean Whitesell.

[edit] Season 1

In the series, Groves was serving a life sentence for killing both of his parents. He then ate his mom and "saved his father for Thanksgiving." He was transferred to Em City at the request of Tim McManus against the objections of Warden Glynn. Glynn eventually agreed, on the condition that McManus take Paul Markstrom as well (Markstrom, unbeknownt to McManus, was an undercover cop.)

When Groves first arrives in Em City, he is sponsored by Bob Rebadow and licks Rebadow's hand. One night in his cell, he told his cellmate Miguel Alvarez that he was going to murder Glynn, but he ends up killing Officer Lawrence Smith, who dies saving Glynn. He is then sentenced to death and transferred to death row. A gang of COs led by Eddie Hunt, angered about Smith's death, take it out on the other inmates by randomly attacking them. This results in several officers being temporarily suspended at McManus' request.

While Groves is on death row, he is visited by Smith's mother, who tells Groves that she forgives him for killing her son. Groves says that him attempting on Glynn wasn't personal, but something that needed to be done on behalf of the prisoners. He chose to be executed by a firing squad. Before his execution, Groves asks Father Ray Mukada to record his last words for Officer Smith's mother, but nobody could make out his last words and he was already dead before Father Mukada could ask Groves to repeat himself.

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