Planning a kidnaping against mafia wishes was a death sentence.

Evidence

Vincenzo Sinagra testified that a man of about fifty, unaware of [my cousin’s] relationship with the mafia, made clear to my cousin his intention, as soon as he got out [of prison], to carry out a kidnaping and asked my cousin to help. In telling me about this episode my cousin said, “This must die” [chistu ‘avi a moriri], meaning that, by planning a kidnaping against the mafia’s will, that man had signed his own death warrant. This sentence was in fact carried out about a week after the day on which, my cousin having been released from prison in the meantime, they had agreed to meet. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 457

Categorization

• XREF: The specific enforcement mechanics — a verbal declaration sealed by a would-be assassin’s own words — echo the Godfather-bonds and private-judge enforcement in Milgrom/Weingast and the reader’s own Bonasera mapping.
• SHARE: The chilling phrase ‘chistu ‘avi a moriri’ — ‘this must die’ — as a recorded mafia death-predicate is a striking detail for anyone into organized-crime linguistic artifacts.