Re: plawrence's link above (a.k.a. July 2004: A GF II question that\'s been killing me )

If I may re-post a screen capture of the dead gunmen originally included on that thread by J Geoff:

• appears that both are lying straight, face up (or is the left one on his side? don't think so, but it is dark...)
• hands appear to be folded in front of them (or is that just their shirt fronts I'm seeing?)

Now this might not be relevant (not yet, anyway -- until I work it into another theory ), but I have a question:

In the 1st GF, Tattaglia took the time to send a "Sicilian message" to the Corleones after the killing of Luca Brasi: a fish wrapped in Luca's bullet-proof vest to signify that "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."

It seems as though the hitmen's killer(s) took the time to place the two dead men in this rather coffin-like position. I'm not too familiar with mafia lore, so does anyone know if that signifies something? Is it a message to Michael? To Fredo? Does slitting of the throat attach a message to the death (symbolizing silence, for example)?

In the film, the shot of the dead hitmen lasts only seconds and is very murky; so FFC probably didn't intend for us viewers to play a game of CLUE with this screen cap. But I can't help but wonder ...