List of Oz Deaths

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The following is a list of deaths from the HBO series, Oz. All of the deaths listed occur within the Oswald State Correctional Facility during the normal timeline of the show. All flashback deaths are omitted.

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[edit] Season 1 (1997)

1. Name: Emilio Sanchez

Episode Title: The Routine

Cause of death: Suffocation.

Death Scenario: Sanchez was dying from AIDS and asked Dino Ortolani to help him die. Dino came later that day, took off the life support system and suffocated him to death using his bare hands.

Murderer: Dino Ortolani.

2. Name: Dino Ortolani

Episode Title: The Routine

Cause of death: Burned to death.

Death Scenario: Dino Ortolani was sent to the hole where he was restrained and sedated after killing Sanchez. Johnny Post used this opportunity and burned him alive. (Following Jefferson Keane's orders, whose brother Ortolani beat up earlier)

Also involved in that death is Ryan O'Reily, who used his connections with the COs to allow Post's entry to the hole. O'Reily manipulated Keane into ordering Ortolani's death because of their shared past; Ortolani had been sent to Oswald after he attempted to murder O'Reily.

Murderer: Johnny Post

3. Name: Johnny Post

Episode Title: Visits, Conjugals and Otherwise

Cause of death: Stabbed to death after being tortured and mutilated.

Death Scenario: Ryan O'Reily ratted him out to Nino Schibetta for killing Ortolani. It is later seen that the wiseguys have him gagged and tied to a chair, and Nino gives them the order to "Kill him. Start with his dick".

It is only later discovered in the news that he was tortured, with several fingers and his genitals being cut off, and then stabbed to death.

Murderer: Nino Schibetta's men

4. Name: Julio Martinez

Episode Title: God's Chillin'

Cause of death: Broken neck.

Death Scenario: Jefferson Keane, once the leader of the gangstas in Oz, converted to Islam out of remorse for his previous actions. Guilty for arranging the death of Dino Ortolani and his responsibility for Johnny Post's death, Keane told Ryan O'Reily that O'Reily, too, must repent for his sins. Taken aback at Keane's conversion, O'Reily decided to have Keane killed rather than risk the chance of Keane revealing O'Reily's connections to the murders of Johnny Post and Dino Ortolani. He approached Nino Schibetta, who approved the hit. O'Reily then used his connections with the guards to lock Keane in the gymnasium with two Latinos who intended to murder him. Keane managed to get the better of them; one of them, Julio Martinez, ended up with a broken neck. Unfortunately, Keane had been videotaped by the guards, and his murder would come back to haunt him.

Murderer: Jefferson Keane

5. Name: Jefferson Keane

Episode Title: Capital P

Cause of death: Lethal injection.

Death Scenario: Jefferson Keane was condemned to die by lethal injection for the murder of Julio Martinez. Despite killing Martinez in self-defense, Keane decided not to appeal. At peace with his fate, and his Muslim faith, Keane was afraid that if he were not executed, he would eventually return to his gangster ways, and cause the deaths of many others. He accepted his death believing he would die with his conscience finally clean.

Murderer: The state.

6. Name: Richard L'Italien

Episode Title: Capital P

Cause of death: Lethal injection.

Death Scenario: Richard L'Italien was executed by lethal injection for murder in the first degree. He confessed to the murder of thirty-eight women only a day before his execution.

Murderer: The state.

7. Name: Paul Markstrom

Episode Title: Straight Life

Cause of death: Death by hanging.

Death Scenario: Markstrom was an undercover DEA officer who joined Jefferson Keane's gang early in the season. He tried to get the homeboys to join the Sicilians in the drug trade, and asked Nino Schibetta to reveal the methods by which drugs are transported inside Oz. However, when the hacks discovered and stopped the next heroin delivery, Markstram was naturally the main suspect, and Schibetta (presumably) asked Simon Adebisi to take him out.

The act itself is not shown on screen, however, and we only see Tim McManus and Warden Leo Glynn enter the gym and find him hanged.

Murderer: Unknown, probably Simon Adebisi.

8. Name: Huseni Mershah

Episode Title: Plan B

Cause of death: Committed suicide by slashing his own throat.

Death Scenario: Mershah, a more militant Muslim than the rest of Kareem Said's followers, tried several times to kick-start a Muslim "holy war" inside of Oz; to what end was never revealed. However, Said and his brethren rejected Mershah's overtures, despite embracing him as a brother. Mershah then attempted to turn several members of Said's flock against him, to no avail. Finally, while Said was having a heart attack, Mershah left him to die, hoping to usurp his place and become the new imam of the Muslims of Oz.

Said survived, however, and upon his return from the hospital ward, he was quick to inform the other Muslims of Mershah's actions. They cast him out, shunning him and refusing to even acknowledge his existence. In an attempt to cause problems for Said, Mershah told Leo Glynn and Tim McManus that Said and the Muslims were stockpiling weapons, causing a massive shakedown. Ironically, many in Emerald City had weapons, but not Said and the Muslims. Mershah had now become an enemy to the rest of Em City as well.

McManus transferred Mershah to Unit B, sending him out of Em City. Despondent, Mershah slit his own throat, committing suicide.

Murderer: Himself.

9. Name: Officer Lawrence Smith

Episode Title: Plan B

Cause of death: Stabbed.

Death Scenario: Donald Groves wanted to kill Warden Leo Glynn after the shakedown, but accidentally shanked Smith instead who tried to defend Glynn.

Murderer: Donald Groves.

10. Name: Donald Groves

Episode Title: Plan B

Cause of death: Execution by a firing squad.

Death Scenario: He was sentenced to death for the murder of officer Lawrence Smith.

Murderer: The state.

11. Name: Nino Schibetta

Episode Title: Plan B

Cause of death: Internal bleeding.

Death Scenario: Ryan O'Reily and Simon Adebisi were secretly putting ground glass in his food for weeks so that he would die slowly and untraceably. That ground glass slowly tore up his internal organs until one day he started hemorrhaging and bleeding from his mouth and ears.

Murderer: Ryan O'Reily and Simon Adebisi.

12. Name: Ricardo Alvarez

Episode Title: Plan B

Cause of death: Complications from Alzheimer's Disease

13. Name: Eugene Dobbins

Episode Title: A Game of Checkers

Cause of death: Several stab wounds to the stomach.

Death Scenario: A random casualty of the riot. He was stabbed several times by some unknown bald black inmate next to the TV in Em City. He was taken out of Em city by Jackson Vahue to get medical treatment, but it is revealed to us in "The Tip" that he did not survive.

Murderer: Unknown inmate.

14. Name: Carlos Rodrigo

Episode Title: A Game of Checkers

Cause of death: Shot in the head.

Death Scenario: He was seen walking in the dark, until a shot was heard, a headshot was visible and he fell to the floor.

Murderer: A member of the SORT team.

15. Name: Scott Ross

Episode Title: A Game of Checkers

Cause of death: Shot in the head, heart and testicles.

Death Scenario: He was shot dead execution-style by Diane Wittlesey during the riot, after he had threatened that he will rat on her to the warden if she doesn't smuggle more cigarettes inside.

The actual murder was not seen during this episode, however, and was only mentioned later in the episode "The tip".

Murderer: Diane Wittlesey.

16,17. Name: Officers Eddie Hunt and Anthony Nowokowski

Episode Title: A Game of Checkers

Cause of death: Unknown

Death Scenario: Their death was not shown on screen, but was only mentioned later in episode "The tip".

18,19,20. Name: 3 Unknown inmates

Episode Title: A Game of Checkers

Cause of death: Unknown

Death Scenario: Their death was not shown on screen, but was only mentioned later in episode "The tip". (When the number of dead inmates in the riot was said)

Total: 20

[edit] Season 2 (1998)

1. Name: Alexander Vogel

Episode Title: Great Men

Cause of death: Slashed throat.

Death Scenario: Schillinger has enlisted Mark Mack's help to take out some random "mutt" inmate to show everyone the Aryans are back in the game. (Schillinger and the Aryan Brotherhood's credibility are at stake for losing a fight and having Tobias Beecher defecate on his face in public.)

The next scene following the two's discussion showed the naked Vogel hanged up by his ankles in the gym as he is found by the CO's. Vogel appeared to have his throat cut and the word Jew carved into his stomach.

Murderer: Mark Mack & Vernon Schillinger.

2. Name: "Freakie"

Episode Title: Losing Your Appeal

Cause of death: Fall from being pushed over Em City railing.

Death Scenario: After seeing Mark Mack and other Aryans rape Richie Hanlon, this Aryan tries to coerce Hanlon into further sexual favors. Hanlon pushes him away, accidentally shoving him over the railing to his death.

Murderer: Richie Hanlon.

3. Name: Kipekemie Jara

Episode Title: Escape From Oz

Cause of death: Stabbed.

Death Scenario: Both the Sicilians, led by Antonio Nappa, and the Homeboys are upset at the influence Nigerian inmate Kipekemie Jara has over Adebisi. Nappa agrees to make Kenny Wangler his partner if Wangler will kill Jara.

Murderer: Kenny Wangler and Junior Pierce.

4, 5. Name: Mark Mack and an unnamed Aryan

Episode Title: Escape From Oz

Cause of death: Buried alive.

Death Scenario: Mack and the other Aryan discover that Agamemnon Busmalis and Robert Rebadow have been digging an escape tunnel. They demand to trade pods so that they can escape. Busmalis resists at first, but Rebadow immediately agrees, telling Busmalis that, in Oz, "you play the hand you're dealt." Rebadow and Busmalis both know that the tunnel is unstable and likely to collapse, which it does, killing the Aryans.

Murderer: Accidental, or, arguably, Agamemnon Busmalis and Robert Rebadow.

Total: 5.

[edit] Season 3 (1999)

1. Name: C.O. Karl Metzger

Episode Title: The Truth and Nothing But

Cause of death: Throat slashed.

Death Scenario: Metzger's involvement with the Aryan Brotherhood led to Tobias Beecher's hospitalization at the end of season 2 (Chris Keller broke both his arms and Vernon Schillinger both his legs, while Metzger watched). When Beecher is released from the hospital ward, Metzger decides to prey on him again, which ends abruptly when Beecher uses his overgrown fingernails to slice open Metzger's face and throat.

Murderer: Tobias Beecher.

2. Name: Malcolm Coyle

Episode Title: Legs

Cause of death: Stabbed repeatedly.

Death Scenario: Coyle tells inmate Augustus Hill that he killed an Italian family, outlining the acts in grisly detail. The notorious crime was never solved; Coyle is serving time for another, lesser offense. Disgusted, Hill tells the authorities, also telling them about Coyle's videotape of the crime. Kareem Said convinces the Muslims, Italians, Latinos, and Aryans to form an unlikely alliance in order to protect Hill from retribution from the Homeboys, especially Kenny Wangler. Antonio Nappa, the leader of the Italians, goes one step further, ordering the death of Coyle, as Nappa knew the murdered family.

Murderer: Antonio Nappa's men.

3. Name: Richie Hanlon

Episode Title: Unnatural Disasters

Cause of death: Throat slashed.

Death Scenario: Hanlon was forced by the Aryans to confess to the murder of Alexander Vogel, which was actually committed by Vern Schillinger and Mark Mack. Hanlon was sentenced to death for the murder, but his sentence was overturned on a technicality, so he returned to Em City. Nicolai Stanislofsky, who arrived at Em City while Hanlon was on death row, expressed a desire to congratulate the man who killed Vogel, his former enemy. In the showers with Hanlon, however, Stanislofsky cut his throat with a razorblade and said, "I lied. Alexander Vogel was my friend."

Murderer: Nicolai Stanislofsky.

4. Name: Andrew Schillinger

Episode Title: U.S. Male

Cause of death: Heroin overdose.

Death Scenario: When Andrew, Vern Schillinger's son, arrived at Oz, Tobias Beecher, Chris Keller, and Ryan O'Reily together decided to use him to get revenge on his father. Beecher befriended Andrew, helping him to break his heroin addiction and encouraging his hatred of his father. Eventually, Andrew denounces his father and white supremacy in the cafeteria. After Andrew is thrown in the hole for bad behavior, Schillinger arranges for C.O. Len Lopresti to give his son highly potent heroin. Andrew struggles with himself, trying not to take it, but he eventually gives in. He ODs and dies.

Murderer: While no one murders him, Len Lopresti, Vernon Schillinger, Tobias Beecher, Chris Keller, and Ryan O'Reily all have clear roles in his death.

5. Name: William Cudney

Episode Title: Cruel and Unusual Punishments

Cause of death: Stabbed in the neck.

Death Scenario: Ryan O'Reily has been paying Cudney to steal chloral hydrate from the hospital ward; O'Reily is using it to tip the matches in Oz's boxing tournament. Cudney realizes what O'Reily is doing and tells him that he's going to inform the authorities, so O'Reily hires brutal Cossack hit man Yuri Kosygin. Cudney is found dead in his bed.

Murderer: Yuri Kosygin.

6. Name: Antonio Nappa

Episode Title: Secret Identities

Cause of death: Asphyxiation.

Death Scenario: Having contracted HIV after Simon Adebisi stuck him with an infected needle, Nappa is moved to a cell block populated entirely with HIV+ prisoners. He decides to write his memoirs, a tell-all book about the mob, and his cellmate Nat Ginzburg offers to serve as his secretary. Ginzburg and the Gays inform Chucky Pancamo of Nappa's book; Pancamo pays them to get him the book and then kill Nappa. The book, which is on a floppy disk, is destroyed by Pancamo himself, and Ginzburg smothers Nappa with a pillow.

Murderer: Nat Ginzburg.

7. Name: Carlos Ricardo

Episode Title: Out of Time

Cause of death: Stabbed.

Death Scenario: Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez has ordered Chico Guerra and Ricardo to kill Miguel Alvarez, whom El Cid believes to be a snitch (and just generally dislikes). Guerra and Ricardo enter Alvarez's cell to kill him, but Alvarez defends himself, killing Ricardo in the process.

Murderer: Miguel Alvarez

Total: 7.

[edit] Season 4 (2000-2001)

1,2,3,4,5. Name: Kenny Wangler, Junior Pierce, CO Joseph Howard, Lou Wrath, and Guilliame Tarrant

Episode Title: A Cock and Balls Story

Cause of death: Shot.

Death Scenario: Guilliame Tarrant is a mentally and physically weak white French man who was sent into Oz. Noticing his weakness, Wangler and his crew (Pierce and Poet) began harassing him - humiliating him and stealing his shoes. Simon Adebisi, still seeking revenge for Jara's death, puts the gun he was given by officer Clayton Hughes under Tarrant's pillow. Adebisi also gives Tarrant the gun because he wants a black man to run Em City, and he believes the best way to ensure that is for a white man to kill several black men within Em City. Tarrant does so the next day, shooting Wangler and Pierce when they harass him. Tarrant shoots two other black men--prisoner Lou Wrath and C.O. Joseph Howard--because he is afraid, disorented, and shooting in every direction. When the S.O.R.T team come to bring back order, Tarrant commits suicide.

Murderer: Guilliame Tarrant.

6. Name: Hamid Kahn

Episode Title: A Cock and Balls Story

Cause of death: Severe brain damage.

Death Scenario: In the championship boxing match of season 3, Cyril O'Reily accidentally causes Kahn severe brain damage. As Kahn is brain dead and comatose, Kahn's widow wins a lawsuit to have her husband removed from life support.

Murderer: Cyril O'Reily

7. Name: Ralph Galino

Episode Title: Obituaries

Cause of death: Overdose.

Death Scenario: Galino brought a cell phone into Oz, not knowing they were restricted items. Nikolai Stanislofsky discovered this, told Galino cell phones weren't allowed, and offered to take it to the COs himself as an act of friendship. A thankful Galino hands over the phone, which Stanislofsky keeps. When Ryan O'Reily finds out Stanislofsky has a cell phone, he asks Stanislofsky to share it with him. Stanislofsky denies having a cellphone, and O'Reily sneaks inside his cell to look for it. Failing to find the phone, he informs Galino that Stanislofsky has not honoured the agreement and still has the cell phone. When Galino goes to Stanislofsky and demands the phone back, Stanislofsky hires Jaz Hoyt to kill him. The bikers ambush Galino in the gym, and inject him with drugs, causing his death of overdose.

Murderer: Jaz Hoyt and the Bikers.

8. Name: Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez

Episode Title: The Bill of Wrongs

Cause of death: Stabbed in the neck.

Death Scenario: Enrique Morales came to Oz and was immediately approached by Pancamo, who isn't pleased with the way Hernandez was running his share of the drug trade. So, he tells Morales that he can have Hernandez's third if he kills Hernandez and takes over his gang. Wanting to keep his hands clean, Morales orders Rebadow to kill Hernandez for him. At first, Rebadow declines, but Morales threatens to kill him if he doesn't and assures him that if he'll say that Hernandez was the one who have attacked him, and that he was merely trying to defend himself, no one will suspect him. Morales then speaks to Sean Murphy, the unit manager, asking to have Rebadow transferred to Hernandez' cell, claiming Rebadow will have a "calming effect" on Hernandez. That night, Rebadow stabs him. Hernandez tries to kill him with his last breath, but he quickly bleeds to death.

Murderer: Bob Rebadow.

9. Name: Shirley Bellinger

Episode Title: Works of Mercy

Cause of death: Execution by hanging.

Death Scenario: She was sentenced to death for the murder of her daughter. After some months in prison it was found out she was pregnant. Still, she wanted to die, because she thought she didn't deserve to live. Sister Pete concluded that Bellinger was insane, and Governor James Devlin then changed her sentence to life imprisonment, and had her institutionalized. But, after she had a miscarriage under suspicious circumstances, the governor changed her sentence back to death sentence.

Murderer: The state.

10. Name: Bruno Goergen

Episode Title: Gray Matter

Cause of death: Fall into an elevator shaft.

Death Scenario: As Bruno Goergen (a bad cop) was entering into Em City, he recognized a fellow inmate, an undercover cop, Johnny Basil, who is going by the name "Desmond Mobay." The two agreed to keep each other's identities secret. But, when Goergen was beaten up for the first time, he threatened to expose Basil, angry that his fellow former officer had not protected him in the fight. Basil realized Goergen was a threat, and he had already agreed to prove himself to Adebisi, Morales, and Pancamo by killing someone. He told Goergen that Augustus Hill knew his identity and was going to expose him to the inmates. Basil then told Goergen they should kill Hill, but when Hill came to the elevator shaft to meet with Basil and Goergen, Basil pushed Goergen into the shaft.

Murderer: Johnny Basil.

11. Name: Nat Ginzburg

Episode Title: A Word to the Wise

Cause of death: Died in his sleep of AIDS.

Death Scenario: Nat Ginzburg was on death row for killing Antonio Nappa, who wanted to write his memoirs and the Italians could not allow this, so they hired Ginzburg (who was Nappa's cell mate) to kill him. He was a homosexual, and had AIDS. Just two months before his execution in a gas chamber, his symptoms were very obvious and he realized that AIDS was "winning" in killing him. He made a precedent when he asked that his execution date be moved up. The night before his execution he died peacefully in his sleep.

Murderer: None.

12. Name: Patrick Keenan

Episode Title: A Word to the Wise

Cause of death: Head bashed with a weight.

Death Scenario: Keenan raped Dr. Gloria Nathan. He was arrested and sent to Oz for that crime. After a few weeks, Ryan O'Reily approached Keenan in the gym and wanted to know what was it like to rape Dr. Nathan. Keenan told him all the details, and O'Reily killed him, to avenge the rape and show Dr. Nathan how much he loves her.

Murderer: Ryan O'Reily.

13. Name: Nikolai Stanislofsky

Episode Title: A Town Without Pity

Cause of death: Electrocution.

Death Scenario: Ryan O'Reily managed to get hold of Ralph Galino's cellphone during a fight, when Stanislofsky dropped it. Stanislofsky finally told Querns about the cellphone, and asked for protective custody. The cellphone was not found after the first search for it in Em City. Stanislofsky was convinced that O'Reily will kill him somehow, because now O'Reily knew that Stanislofsky tipped him off. The cellphone was later found because Stanislofsky's girlfriend called it's number. Querns threatened O'Reily that it will be his fault even if "Stanislofsky cuts himself during shaving" when he would return to Em City from protective custody. During this time, O'Reily and CO Howell had a sexual affair, so she did him a favor by killing Stanislofsky. A day before returning to Em City, while he was taking a bath, she came in and threw a hair dryer in his bathtub.

Murderer: CO Claire Howell.

14. Name: Eli Zabitz

Episode Title: A Town Without Pity

Cause of death: Heart attack.

Death Scenario: Eli Zabitz wrongfully told Tobias Beecher that Chris Keller ordered the kidnapping of his son, Vernon Schillinger paid him to tell that. Keller wanted to kill Zabitz for that misinformation. Zabitz went to Schillinger and complained about Keller's threat and asked for protection. Schillinger told him that he would be protected, but as soon as Zabitz left, Schillinger ordered James Robson to kill him. Later, Zabitz was in the storage room, when both Keller and Robson came in to kill him. They both approached him, but Zabitz got so scared that his heart gave up before either of them touched him.

Murderer: None.

15. Name: Mark Miles

Episode Title: You Bet Your Life

Cause of death: Choking.

Death Scenario: Both Mark Miles and Moses Deyell were on death row, in cells next to each other. Moses was black, and Miles was white and he obviously disliked Moses and always called him derogatory names. Moses slowly started to dig through a wall that divided their cells, and he hid the hole whenever possible. On the other side of the wall, Miles was working for some time on his self portrait. One day, Miles provoked him and Moses smashed the wall (now thinner from digging the hole) right through the self portrait, and caught Miles with his hand by the neck. He slammed his head against the wall a couple of times, and choked him.

Murderer: Moses Deyell.

16. Name: Nate Shemin

Episode Title: You Bet Your Life

Cause of death: Multiple stab wounds on his body.

Death Scenario: When the situation in Em City became "too dark", Ryan O'Reily and Chris Keller agreed they had to do something to end the ongoing state. Violence was the obvious choice. So, Keller stabbed Shemin, an unimportant white inmate in the laundry room, partly because Shemin had a sexual relation with Tobias Beecher.

Murderer: Chris Keller.

17. Name: Mondo Browne

Episode Title: You Bet Your Life

Cause of death: Unknown, presumably stabbed to death.

Death Scenario: As part of the plan to shake things up in Em City, Chris Keller and Ryan O'Reily arranged that Mondo Browne be alone in the prison kitchen. Keller approached him, and offered Browne oral sex. Browne accepted, and Keller then closed the door of the storage area, and the killing itself was not shown.

Murderer: Chris Keller.

18. Name: Simon Adebisi

Episode Title: You Bet Your Life

Cause of death: Stab wound to the back.

Death Scenario: Adebisi was a trustee of Martin Querns, and he was supposed to do whatever he wanted in Em City, as long as there was no violence. Adebisi gave a tape of his parties to Said, to "test his loyalty". Said gave the tape to warden Glynn, who immediately fired Querns, and rehired Tim McManus as the head of Em City. McManus's first decision as he came back was to transfer Adebisi to B block. Adebisi was enraged the moment he heard the announcement, and went in his pod and attacked Said. Moments later he came out of his pod, and spit blood before he collapsed to the floor. Said exited after him, holding a shank which Adebisi used to attack him.

Murderer: Kareem Said.

19. Name: Yee Shee Bian

Episode Title: Conversions

Cause of death: Multiple staples on his face.

Death Scenario: Illegal Chinese immigrants were sent to Oz, because they couldn't stay anywhere else until their status was resolved. Some days before, Burr Redding also came to Em City. Morales and Pancamo offered him "a slice of the cake" and he said he will "let them know what he decides". Morales didn't like that, so he told Yee Shee Bian that Redding hates Asians, and that he said he will kill them when he gets the chance. Yee Shee Bian went to Tim McManus and complained, at which McManus said he had no evidence to support his claims. Later, Morales and his gang caught Yee Shee Bian when he was alone, and Morales used a stapler to kill kim, just to implicate Redding.

Murderer: Enrique Morales.

20. Name: Ronald Barlog

Episode Title: Revenge is Sweet

Cause of death: Broken neck.

Death Scenario: Barlog came to Oz some days before his death. On the outside, he was friends with Keller. After his arrival he had sexual relations with Tobias Beecher. Keller didn't like that, so he took Barlog from Beecher. Then, Barlog went to Beecher for legal advice, because the FBI offered Barlog to reduce his sentence if he would testify against Keller in trial for killings for which he was never tried for lack of evidence. Beecher told that to Keller, and Keller broke Barlog's neck when Barlog was performing fellatio on him.

Murderer: Chris Keller.

21. Name: Jorge Vasquez

Episode Title: Cuts Like A Knife

Cause of death: Throat cut.

Death Scenario: Alvarez was back in Em City after he had a deal with Glynn, that he'll be a spy for him. Jorge Vasquez confronted Alvarez and said he hasn't forgotten how he shanked Carlo Ricardo. He also told him that he's going to die when Carmen Guerra comes back from infirmary. Alvarez looked at him, and asked him what he was waiting for and that he had nothing to lose. Alvarez then attacked first, took out his shank, managed to grab Vasquez from behind and slit his throat.

Murderer: Miguel Alvarez.

22. Name: Fred Wick

Episode Title: Cuts Like A Knife

Cause of death: Complications due to side-effects of the aging drug.

Death Scenario: Weigert consortium was permitted to test a drug in Oz, a drug which made a prisoner age in relatively short time. So, when a man was convicted of a crime for 20 years, he would just take a pill and age 20 years. Ten inmates from Em city volunteered for testing of the drug in its experimental phase. Cyril O'Reily was on of them, and his hair turned gray overnight. Jaz Hoyt and Fred Wick were just commenting that, and said how it couldn't happen to them - since both of them were bald. Just seconds later, Wick's head just dropped and banged on the table. Hoyt raised his head, and Wick just fell on the floor, dead, with a bloody nose.

Murderer: None.

23. Name: Leroy Tidd

Episode Title: Blizzard of '01

Cause of death: Stab wound to the chest.

Death Scenario: Leroy Tidd volunteered to kill Kareem Said, and went to the Arians and asked them to pay him for that. They agreed, but after some time Leroy embraced islam, changed his name to Salah Udeen and changed his mind. After he confessed that to James Robson, Robson hired another man to kill Kareem Said, Carl Jenkins, and told him he will be accepted into the Arian brotherhood if he was successful. At lunch time while they were walking in line, Jenkins pulled out his knife and attacked Kareem, but Leroy Tidd saw him coming and jumped in front of Kareem, so he was stabbed instead of Kareem.

Murderer: Carl Jenkins (Oz).

24. Name: John Basil

Episode Title: Orpheus Descending

Cause of death: Stab wound to the stomach.

Death Scenario: Clayton Hughes was in unit J, along with John Basil, who was undercover in Oz as Desmond Mobay. Clayton Hughes had changed a lot in the past few years, and became an inmate from a correctional officer. He was obviously tired of his two fellow inmates making fun of him and insulting him, so he locked CO Claire Howell in her booth, and stabbed John Basil in the stomach. He also tried to stab Alvin Yood, but he was stopped.

Murderer: Clayton Hughes.

25. Name: Carl Jenkins

Episode Title: Orpheus Descending

Cause of death: Suicide by hanging.

Death Scenario: Carl Jenkins was in solitary confinement for killing Leroy Tidd. Kareem Said had a talk with reverend Jeremiah Cloutier about talking to Jenkins. Jenkins tells warden Leo Glynn that it was James Robson who ordered the murder of Kareem Said, but Leroy Tidd was killed by accident. The Arians found out about the conversations and sent him threatening messages. Just when James Robson is also supposed to go to solitary, Carl Jenkins is found dead, hanging by the neck from a shower head.

Murderer: None.

26. Name: Moses Deyell

Episode Title: Orpheus Descending

Cause of death: Unknown, jumped out of a moving vehicle.

Death Scenario: Moses Deyell was on death row for multiple crimes. He wanted to make penance for his soul and hence wanted to donate his organs. He had already met the man who was supposed to get his corneas. However, during transportation to the Benchley Memorial hospital for some final tests and to meet a 21 year old student who should have gotten his heart, he jumped out of a moving vehicle and was killed. How exactly was not shown.

Murderer: Unknown.

27. Name: Tug Daniels

Episode Title: Even the Score

Cause of death: Choking.

Death Scenario: Carlton Tug Daniels had a deal with Supreme Allah to kill Morales, Pancamo and Redding, and take over business in Em City. But Burr Redding found out about it, and decided to kill him for betrayal. So, the Homeboys tied him up to a chair and Redding killed Tug by choking him to death using only one hand.

Murderer: Burr Redding.

28. Name: Supreme Allah

Episode Title: Famous Last Words

Cause of death: Suffocation.

Death Scenario: Supreme Allah wanted to eliminate Burr Redding so he could take over his place in Em City. Hill persuaded him not to kill Redding, and said he would do it, so "he wouldn't feel pain". But Hill hasn't forgotten that he was in wheelchair and in Oz because of Supreme Allah. He remembered that Supreme Allah was allergic to eggs. So, he had Poet and O'Reily (who worked in the kitchen) put some eggs in his meal. Supreme Allah collapsed to the floor after a few minutes and his face was swollen, and he suffocated.

Murderer: Augustus Hill, Ryan O'Reily, Arnold "Poet" Jackson.

29. Name: Colonel Edward Galson

Episode Title: Famous Last Words

Cause of death: Crushed by an elevator.

Death Scenario: The colonel was friends with Burr Redding because they were both in Vietnam. Redding wanted him to kill Morales, and an opportunity arose when a personal elevator in Oz broke down. Both Morales and Galson had experience with elevators, so they went to fix it. Galson tried to kill Morales using a wrench, but Morales managed to defend himself, and pushed Galson in the pit of the elevator. He then activated the elevator and brought it down on him, effectively crushing him.

Murderer: Enrique Morales.

30. Name: Clayton Hughes

Episode Title: Famous Last Words

Cause of death: Stab wound to the stomach.

Death Scenario: Clayton Hughes was in solitary confinement for killing Desmond Mobay, and it seemed that isolation affected him so bad that he thought he was the leader of a fictional state called Kuru. He managed to get keys from the CO in charge of solitary. SORT team was ready to go in, but warden Glynn wanted to talk to him first. He went in, hugged him, but Hughes tried to stab him in the back. Luckily for the warden, Hughes unlocked a cell of inmate Penders who saw what Hughes was trying to do, and Penders stopped him. Penders then had a short scuffle with Hughes and Hughes ended up with his own shank in his stomach and died in warden Glynn's hands.

Murderer: Greg Penders.

31. Name: Pedro Calderon

Episode Title: Famous Last Words

Cause of death: Electrocution.

Death Scenario: Omar White had gotten closer to Tim McManus. But when Tim McManus made a fool of himself on TV (and hadn't told Omar White he was going to be on TV) other prisoners watching the TV started mocking him. Omar White got furious and started fighting people. One of them was Pedro Calderon whose head he literally shoved into a TV.

Murderer: Omar White.

32. Name: Unnamed C.O.

Episode Title: Famous Last Words

Cause of death: Explosion.

Death Scenario: Ryan O'Reily, despite Chucky Pancamo's loud objections, left the gas on in the cafeteria. That night, this unnamed C.O. lit a match in the cafeteria, blowing up a large portion of Oz.

Total: 32.

[edit] Season 5 (2002)

1,2,3,4. Name: Sonsyrea Arif, Eugenia Hill, Annette Osorio, and Carrie Schillinger

Episode Title: Visitation

Cause of death: Car accident.

Death Scenario: Some of the inmates were about to be visited by their loved ones, but the bus in which they were travelling got hit by a truck with a tired driver. The bus went off the road and rolled a few times, killing the wife of Zahir Arif, mother of Augustus Hill, sister of Enrique Morales and daughter in law of Vern Schillinger.

Murderer: Accident.

5. Name: Jim Burns

Episode Title: Laws of Gravity

Cause of death: Broken neck.

Death Scenario: Timmy Kirk and Jaz Hoyt told Jim Burns to kill reverend Jeremiah Cloutier. But later that day he saw a vision of Cloutier (who was badly burned and in a bed in the infirmary) who told Burns to kill Kirk and Hoyt. He tried to do just that in the gym, but he was outmanned and had his neck broken with a weight.

Murderer: Jaz Hoyt.

6. Name: Jaime Velez

Episode Title: Next Stop, Valhalla

Cause of death: Smashed head.

Death Scenario: Jaime Velez started to admire Miguel Alvarez, so he wanted to be his follower, and said he would do anything for Alvarez. Alvarez then told him to kill Guerra. Velez later approached Guerra in the shower, and put a shank against his back. Guerra told him he wishes to see the man who killed him and not to be disgraced by a stab in the back. After turning around, Guerra quickly disarmed Velez and smashed his head onto a wall, killing him.

Murderer: Carmen Guerra.

7. Name: Li Chen

Episode Title: Next Stop, Valhalla

Cause of death: Multiple stab wounds to the stomach.

Death Scenario: Jia Kenmin and Li Chen had a deal to provoke O'Reily brothers so they could kill them. Kenmin earlier told Ryan that Li Chen could rape his mother, who was working at the prison. When another inmate, Glen Shupe, also said that to him, Ryan pulled out a shank and stabbed Li Chen from the back. Li hit him so he dropped the shank and Cyril picked it up and stabbed Li Chen a few times to the stomach.

Murderer: Cyril O'Reily, Ryan O'Reily.

8. Name: Ahmad Lalar

Episode Title: Next Stop, Valhalla

Cause of death: Multiple cuts on his body.

Death Scenario: The situation between Aryans and the Muslims was very bad lately, with insults, stabbings and provocations from both sides. James Robson wanted to "give the Muslims a message" so he and another inmate attacked the youngest and weakest of Muslims. They gagged him, and Robson gave him multiple cuts on his torso and hands, while the other inmate held him down. Lalar presumably bled to death.

Murderer: James Robson, unknown Aryan.

9. Name: Salvatore DeSanto

Episode Title: Variety

Cause of death: Braindead from LSD overdose.

Death Scenario: Burr Redding wanted to find out who gave drugs to Augustus Hill when he started using again, and almost died. It was Poet, but he told Burr that it was Salvatore DeSanto. Burr gave Poet the LSD and Poet put it in Salvatore's food. He collapsed after he ate it and he was braindead.

Murderer: Arnold "Poet" Jackson, Burr Redding.

10. Name: Adam Guenzel

Episode Title: Good Intentions

Cause of death: Electrocution.

Death Scenario: Adam Guenzel attended counseling with sister Peter Marie, and he became a liability for Vern Schillinger. He thought Guenzel might give him up for raping Guenzel multiple times. Schillinger "helped" him to escape from prison, but he obviously didn't tell him that the second fence around prison (the first was just a wall) was electrified. He died on the fence when 4.000 volts passed through his body.

Murderer: Vernon Schillinger and the Aryans.

11. Name: Augustus Hill

Episode Title: Impotence

Cause of death: Stab wound to the stomach.

Death Scenario: Enrique Morales approached Frank Urbano and suggested they renew their deal and be partners in drug trade again. Urbano had a condition regarding splitting of the profit, and Morales in turn had a condition that the Italians kill Burr Redding. Later, Urbano tried just that, but Augustus Hill jumped in front of Redding to protect him and he got stabbed instead of Redding.

Murderer: Frank Urbano.

[edit] Season 6: (2003)

1. Name: Father Daniel Meehan

Episode Title: Dead Man Talking

Cause of death: Stroke, possibly induced by the "Evil Eye."

Death Scenario: Peter Schibetta, in his boundless hatred for Ryan O'Reily, asks his wife's grandmother to put the "evil eye" on those near to O'Reily. Meehan is first on the list. Whether Meehan's death from stroke was a coincidence or caused by the "evil eye" is left ambiguous.

Murderer: Natural causes or Peter Schibetta's wife's grandmother.

2. Name: Harrison Beecher

Episode Title: Dead Man Talking

Cause of death: Multiple stab wounds.

Death Scenario: Franklin Winthrop, who is Schillinger's prag, proposes that he be admitted into the Aryan Brotherhood and that his ill-treatment end if he can kill Beecher's father. Schillinger happily agrees. Winthrop happily stabs Beecher's dad.

Murderer: Franklin Winthrop.

3. Name: Timmy Kirk

Episode Title: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil

Cause of death: Electrocution.

Death Scenario: When Maxim is shooting a spread on Oz's death row prisoners, Jaz Hoyt has the opportunity to kill Kirk, whom he hates. He first shanks Kirk and then shoves a light bulb into his mouth, electrocuting him.

Murderer: Jaz Hoyt.

4. Name: Peter Schibetta

Episode Title: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil

Cause of death: Mutilation?

Death Scenario: Schibetta has resolved to have the "evil eye" cast on everyone close to Ryan O'Reily, and finally on O'Reily himself. The curse requires an item belonging to the person to be cursed. After Schibetta steals Suzanne Fitzgerald's keys, O'Reily has little time to stop him from cursing his mother. In the off-chance that the "evil eye" really works, O'Reily tells Chucky Pancamo that Schibetta is having it cast on Pancamo himself. An angry Pancamo and his men corner Schibetta before he can give Fitzgerald's keys to his wife. They kill him and pull out his eye. They also return the keys to a very satisfied O'Reily.

Murderer: Chucky Pancamo, Frank Urbano, and a third Italian.

5. Name: Mayor Wilson Loewen

Episode Title: Sonata Da Oz

Cause of death: Throat cut.

Death Scenario: Loewen has threatened to expose Governor Devlin's political (and perhaps personal) skeletons if he is not immediately pardoned and released from Oz. Devlin, ever the pragmatist, tells his assistant to arrange for Loewen's death. That assistant enlists C.O. Adrian Johnson, who in turn pays off prisoners William Brandt and Lionel Kelsch. One night in the hospital ward, Kelsch begins screaming, providing a diversion so that Brandt can sneak out of his bed and slit Loewen's throat.

Murderer: William Brandt.

6. Name: Carlos Martinez

Episode Title: Sonata Da Oz

Cause of death: Suffocated.

Death Scenario: Insane nurse Carol Grace smothers Martinez with a pillow as he lays prone in his hospital ward bed.

Murderer: Nurse Carol Grace.

7. Name: Kareem Said

Episode Title: Sonata Da Oz

Cause of death: Shot.

Death Scenario: While promoting the Muslims' burgeoning printing business, Said meets with a man posing as a journalist, who promptly shoots him twice. The man is Lemuel Idzik, a man Said briefly met in Istanbul, whose life was shattered by Said's well-intentioned idle chat about astronomy and the end of life in the universe. With his dying breath, Said says, "Arif... don't harm him."

Murderer: Lemuel Idzik.

8. Name: Franklin Winthrop

Episode Title: A Failure to Communicate

Cause of death: Neck snapped.

Death Scenario: Chris Keller lured Winthrop into the Unit B utility closet on the pretext of sex. Once there, he killed Winthrop to avenge the murder of Beecher's father.

Murderer: Chris Keller.

9. Name: Wolfgang Cutler

Episode Title: A Failure to Communicate

Cause of death: Hanged.

Death Scenario: James Robson, tired of being Cutler's prag, made a truce with Chucky Pancamo. (Robson originally agreed to become Cutler's sex slave because of his desperate need for protection against the Italians.) Then, Robson went to Sister Peter Marie and told her he thought Cutler was suicidal. He talked Cutler into experimenting with autoerotic asphyxiation; the next morning, we see Cutler's corpse hanging from a pair of pantyhose. "I guess I forgot to untie you," Robson remarks. The death is assumed to be a suicide.

Murderer: James Robson.

10. Name: Enrique Morales

Episode Title: 4giveness

Cause of death: Suffocated.

Death Scenario: In the hospital ward, Nurse Grace frightens Morales. He tells Tim McManus that he thinks Nurse Grace is dangerous but is ignored. That night, she sedates Morales and then stifles him with a pillow.

Murderer: Nurse Carol Grace.

11. Name: William Brandt

Episode Title: A Day in the Death

Cause of death: Throat cut.

Death Scenario: Lionel Kelsch, on orders from C.O. Adrian Johnson (who is himself following the orders of Devlin's assistant, who is following Devlin's orders), kills William Brandt in an attempt to cover up the specifics of Mayor Wilson Loewen's murder.

Murderer: Lionel Kelsch.

12. Name: Stanley Bukowski

Episode Title: Junkyard Dawgs

Cause of death: A burst of steam to the face.

Death Scenario: Bukowski was sent to Oz for the distribution and sale of weed. Upon entering Oz, he was approached by Poet and Rawls who wanted him to help them get back to the drug trade. He had agreed, and allowed them to sell some hash-brownies that were delivered to him from the outside.

The homeboys then asked him for his recipe, so that they will not be dependent on him, and he gave them a recipe. The Italians noticed that, and decided to eliminate the competition. Bukowski was approached by them in the kitchen, and was dragged into the boiler room where Pancamo pressed his head into a steam pipe and opened the valve, killing him. The homeboys did nothing to protect Bukowski because they believed he was of no use to them after they had the recipe. It was later discovered that the recipe given to them was bogus.

Murderers: The Italians.

13. Name: Omar White

Episode Title: Junkyard Dawgs

Cause of death: Slashed throat.

Death Scenario: Idzik was sent to Oz for the murder of Kareem Said. As a result, he was targeted for murder by Omar White who admired Kareem Said. Tim McManus, who was aware of White's intentions, warned him not to try anything, and even made him Idzik's sponsor to force him to deal with his feelings of revenge.

Surprisingly, upon meeting Idzik has asked White to kill him himself. White, baffled by Idzik's request and afraid of punishment for his murder denies Idzik's request. As a result, Idzik decides to take plan B and slashes White's throat in his sleep (to get a death sentence).

Murderer: [[Lemuel Idzik.

14. Name: Warden Leo Glynn

Episode Title: Junkyard Dawgs

Cause of death: Stab wound to the stomach.

Death Scenario: After Glynn was not intimidated by the death of William Brandt, and kept investigating the murder of Mayor Wilson Loewen, he gave Adryan no option but to have him killed. Johnson was given the order to have Glynn killed by Devlins' assistant, and had inmate Lionel Kelsch do the deed.

Kelsch murders Glynn during a celebration in his honor. The actual murder is not shown on screen, but we see McManus see blood-trails going out of Glynn's bathroom, and later Glynn walking slowly, bleeding heavily from his stomach with a tuxedo. (As he apparently prepared for the party when Kelsch attacked him) He finally collapses upon entering the room in which the party took place. Everyone rushes to his help, but it is too late for him as he has no pulse.

Kelsch and Johnson are later seen nodding silently to each other.

Murderer: Lionel Kelsch.

15. Name: Jeremiah Cloutier