This list of victims of the Sicilian Mafia includes people who have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia while opposing its rule. It does not include people killed in internal conflicts of the Mafia itself.
1890s
1893 February 1 – Emanuele Notarbartolo, former mayor of Palermo (1873–1876) and director of the Banco di Sicilia. He wanted to "clean" the management of the bank, damaging the Mafia political power.
1900s
1905 October 14 – Luciano Nicoletti, peasant, militant of the Fasci Siciliani movement, engaged in struggles against large estates. He was 54 years old when he died.
1906 January 13 – Andrea Orlando, doctor, city councilor. He supported the peasants in the struggles for "collective tenancy".
1909 March 12 – Joseph Petrosino, a New York City police officer on a mission in Palermo to gather information from local police files to help deport Italian gangsters from New York as illegal immigrants.
1910s
1911 May 16 – Lorenzo Panepinto, peasant leader in Santo Stefano Quisquina, involved in the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues). Panepinto, nemico del feudo , La Sicilia, May 17, 2009
1914 May 20 – Mariano Barbato and Giorgio Pecoraro, socialist militants from Piana dei Greci. Il coraggio di Mariano Barbato , La Sicilia, January 17, 2010
1915 November 3 – Bernardino Verro, a Sicilian syndicalist and politician, involved in the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues) a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration in 1891–1894, and the first socialist mayor of Corleone.
1919 January 29 – Giovanni Zangara, elected councilor and then alderman on the list of Bernardino Verro. September 22 – Giuseppe Rumore, secretary of the Lega di miglioramento (League of improvement) in Prizzi.
1920s
1921 April 28 – Vito Stassi, socialist militant from Piana dei Greci. Intransigente contro la mafia , La Sicilia, February 7, 2010
1920 February 29 – Nicola Alongi, peasant leader involved in the Fasci Siciliani from Prizzi. October 14 – Giovanni Orcel, trade union leader from Palermo. Disperata giustizia proletaria , La Sicilia, March 7, 2010
1930s With fascist rule in the 1930s, the mob seemed to disappear due to repressive state action.
1940s
1943 September 2 – Antonio Mancino, first carabiniere killed by the Mafia.
1944 August 6 – Andrea Raja, trade unionist for the occupation of land by farmers.
1945 March 28 – Calogero Comaianni, rural guard in Corleone after arresting Luciano Leggio for stealing wheat. Comaianni, un eroe normale, La Sicilia, April 5, 2009 September 13 – Liborio Ansalone, chief of the municipal police of Corleone. Delitto Ansalone, mistero irrisolto, La Sicilia, April 5, 2009 December 5 – Giuseppe Puntarello, a socialist trade union leader from Ventimiglia di Sicilia. Ucciso Giuseppe Puntarello, segretario della locale sezione comunista, VittimeMafia.it
1947 January 4 – Accursio Miraglia, a communist trade union leader from Sciacca. May 1 – Margherita Clesceri, Giorgio Cusenza, Giovanni Megna, Francesco Vicari, Vito Allotta, Serafino Lascari, Filippo Di Salvo, Giuseppe Di Maggio, Castrense Intravaia, Giovanni Grifò and Vincenza La Fata, killed in the Portella della Ginestra massacre, during Labour Day celebrations in Sicily near Piana degli Albanesi. Una strage con troppi misteri, La Sicilia, May 1, 2011 November 8 – Vittorio Pipitone, trade unionist.
1948 March 2 – Epifanio Li Puma, trade unionist. March 10 – Placido Rizzotto, a socialist trade union leader from Corleone, a stronghold of Mafia boss Michele Navarra and Luciano Leggio who killed Rizzotto.Ritrovati i resti di Placido Rizzotto sindacalista ucciso dalla mafia nel '48 In 1952, Leggio was acquitted of Rizzotto's murder.Identificati dopo 64 anni i resti di Rizzotto il sindacalista che combatteva la mafia di Liggio March 11 – Giuseppe Letizia, a shepherd boy who witnessed the murder of Placido Rizzotto, was killed by the doctor Michele Navarra with a lethal injection. April 1 – Calogero Cangelosi, secretary of the Camporeale Chamber of Labor.
1950s
1955 May 16 – Salvatore Carnevale, trade unionist.
1957 April 25 – Pasquale Almerico, trade unionist.
1960s
1960 March 30 – Cataldo Tandoy, former head of police of Agrigento. May 5 – Cosimo Cristina, a journalist with L'Ora in Palermo. Un cronista scomodo nelle terre della mafia, La Repubblica, May 5, 2012
1963 June 30 – Mario Malausa, Silvio Corrao, Calogero Vaccaro, Eugenio Altomare and Mario Farbelli from the Carabinieri, and Pasquale Nuccio and Giorgio Ciacci from the Army. Killed while defusing a car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco in the so-called Ciaculli massacre. Strage Ciaculli: Lumia, "tenere attenzione sempre alta" , ANSA, June 30, 2009
1970s
1970 September 16 – Mauro De Mauro, journalist for L'Ora in Palermo. He disappeared following his investigations on the mysterious death of Enrico Mattei and on the Golpe Borghese, a right wing coup attempt. De Mauro was allegedly murdered by the Mafia to cover up these events and possible political connections.Revealed: how story of Mafia plot to launch coup cost reporter his life, The Independent on Sunday, June 19, 2005
1971 May 5 – Pietro Scaglione, Chief Prosecutor of Palermo, and his driver Antonino Lo Russo. The killing was ordered by Mafia boss Luciano Leggio, head of the Corleonesi. Scaglione, un delitto impunito, La Sicilia, July 23, 2006
1972 October 27 – Giovanni Spampinato, journalist L'Ora who was killed while looking into the activities of neo-fascism in Sicily and Mafia smuggling activities along the east coast of Sicily. Era L'Ora della mafia in prima pagina, La Stampa, June 18, 2012
1977 August 20 – Giuseppe Russo, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Carabinieri, and Professor Filippo Costa. 32 anni dall'eccidio del Ten.Col. Giuseppe Russo e del Prof. Filippo Costa , Antimafia Duemila, August 20, 2009 Russo was a confidant of Mafia boss Giuseppe Di Cristina who warned against the growing power of the Corleonesi faction, who killed Russo.
1978 May 9 – Giuseppe Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in his hometown Cinisi, the stronghold of Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti.Giuseppe Impastato: his actions, his murder, the investigation and the cover up , by Tom Behan, Centro Siciliano di Documentazione "Giuseppe Impastato"
1979 January 26 – Mario Francese, an investigative journalist with the Giornale di Sicilia. March 9 – Michele Reina, provincial secretary of the Christian Democrats. March 20 – Carmine Pecorelli, journalistBiografia di Mario Francese , Fondazione Francese July 11 – Giorgio Ambrosoli, lawyer July 21 – Boris Giuliano, a police chief from Palermo and head of Palermo's Flying Squad (Squadra mobile), while investigating heroin trafficking by the Mafia. September 25 – Judge Cesare Terranova and his driver, policeman Lenin Mancuso. Terranova had been the examining magistrate at the Palermo prosecuting office and a former member of the Italian Antimafia Commission.
1980s
1980 January 6 – Piersanti Mattarella, President of the Regional Government of Sicily wanting to clean up the government's public contracts racket that benefited Cosa Nostra, passing a law enforcing the same building standards used in the rest of Italy, thereby making the Mafia's building schemes illegal. On January 31, 2015, his younger brother Sergio Mattarella was elected by the Italian Parliament to serve as President of the Italian Republic. May 4 – Emanuele Basile, a captain of the Carabinieri and a collaborator of Judge Paolo Borsellino in anti-Mafia investigations. August 6 – Judge Gaetano Costa, Chief Prosecutor of Palermo, after he signed the 53 arrest warrants against the heroin-trafficking network of the Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino clan in May 1980.
1982 April 30 – Pio La Torre, regional secretary of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) and his driver Rosario Di Salvo. La Torre was killed after he initiated a law that introduced a new crime in the Italian legal system, mafia conspiracy, and the possibility for the courts to seize and to confiscate the assets of the persons belonging to the mafia conspiracy. June 16 – a squad of hitmen armed with AK-47 rifles kills Catanese boss Alfio Ferlito, who was transferred from Enna to the Trapani jail, and died with the three escort carabinieri Salvatore Raiti, Silvano Franzolin and Luigi Di Barca, and the driver Giuseppe Di Lavore in the so-called Circonvallazione massacre. August 12 – Paolo Giaccone, director of the institute of legal medicine. September 3 – General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and police officer Domenico Russo are killed in the so-called Via Carini massacre. Dalla Chiesa, at the time prefect of Palermo, was killed after being appointed three months earlier to fight the Mafia in the midst of the bloody Second Mafia War.Shock Therapy Time, September 20, 1982 November 14 – Calogero Zucchetto, Police officer of the Palermo Flying Squad.
1983 January 26 – Gian Giacomo Ciaccio Montalto, magistrate. June 13 – Captain of the Carabinieri Mario D'Aleo, Giuseppe Bommarito and Pietro Morici. July 29 – Judge Rocco Chinnici, two of his police escorts, Mario Trapassi and Salvatore Bartolotta, and the concierge of his apartment block, Stefano Li Sacchi are killed by a bomb in via Pipitone. Chinnici had created the Antimafia Pool, a group of investigating magistrates who closely worked together investigating the Mafia.
1984 January 5 – Giuseppe Fava, an investigative journalist and founder of the I Siciliani monthly magazine in Catania. The magazine investigated Cosa Nostra and its tentacles in politics and business, in particular those of Sicily's biggest Catania-based construction firms.Anti-Mafia Campaigner Is Found Slain in Sicily, Associated Press, January 7, 1984
1985 April 2 – Barbara Asta, and her little sons, the twin-brothers Salvatore and Giuseppe, by a car bomb intended to kill the magistrate Carlo Palermo in the so-called Pizzolungo massacre. July 28 – Giuseppe "Beppe" Montana, a flying squad officer in Palermo in charge of the hunt for Mafia fugitives. August 6 – Antonino "Ninni" Cassarà, police chief in Palermo and his bodyguard Roberto Antiochia. Cassarà drew up the 'Michele Greco + 161' report in July 1982, listing 162 Mafiosi who warranted arrest. The report was the start of an investigation that was to become the Maxi Trial, where most of the leadership of the Mafia were tried. He was shot to death with his colleague Roberto Antiochia by a team of gunmen armed with AK-47 outside his home. December 12 – Graziella Campagna, a 17-year-old girl who found a list of names of mafiosi inside of a coat at the laundromat where she worked. She recognized it as being important information and gave it to her brother who was a Carabinieri. Shortly after, she was tricked to get into a car with her killer, and she was led to an area in which she tried to run away, but was killed by five blasts of a shotgun.
1986 October 7 – Claudio Domino, 11-year-old boy.
1988 January 12 – Giuseppe Insalaco, the former mayor of Palermo. During the brief stint as mayor in 1984 he had tried to clean up the area of city contracts. January 14 – Natale Mondo, a police officer who was the partner of Ninni Cassarà. September 14 – Alberto Giacomelli, a retired judge in Trapani. A 10 ANNI FERITO IN UNA RAPINA, La Repubblica, April 22, 1989 September 25 – Judge Antonino Saetta and his son Stefano as they are returning to Palermo after a weekend in the country. Saetta was a member of the Palermo Court of Appeal. He was scheduled to hear the appeal of the Maxi Trial and had shown to be incorruptible. September 26 – Mauro Rostagno, a former radical student of Lotta Continua and journalist who had started a drug rehabilitation centre in Trapani. He denounced Mafia drug traffickers on the local television.
1989 April 21 – Gianluigi Barletta, a ten-year-old boy wounded by a member of clan Cappello in Catania.