Season 4
Ginzburg pleads guilty to the murder and is moved to Shirley Bellinger's cell on death row. When Bellinger returns he refuses to give her her old cell back, leaving her to occupy the last of the four, the other ones being used by Moses Deyell, and Mark Miles. After Bellinger's execution, Deyell informs Dr. Gloria Nathan that Ginzburg's condition is worsening and no other doctor has been to see him. After an examination, she and Sister Peter Marie attempt to convince him to move back to the HIV/AIDs ward, but he refuses it.
Despite Sister Pete's opposition to the death penalty, she agrees to help Ginzburg speak to the lawyers about moving his execution date up, feeling in this case that ending Ginzburg's life would be an act of mercy. Ginzburg dresses like Susan Hayward for his execution, but when he's shaking too much to finish his nails he asks Sister Pete to do it for him. Though she tries, his illness makes it difficult and she insists he lie down and rest instead.
The next morning, as the officials arrive to take him to the gas chamber they find him dead, dying in his sleep of complications of HIV. Still, Sister Peter Marie finishes his nails post mortem.
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