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- Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola, a Sicilian mafia boss, died at age 87 in a high-security jail in Milan.
- He had been imprisoned for more than three decades, serving multiple life sentences for murder and other crimes.
- Santapaola led the mafia in Catania from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
- He was convicted for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
