To be honest I think they portrayed it pretty well in the movie Gotti. I think it wasn't that different from the movie.. Gotti knew it was an accident but it was expected from a man like him, a powerful capo, to do something about it. His wife probably pressed him, his crew probably bothered him, everybody ready to take the contract and score points with him... I guess he just fell to the pressure and okayed it.
Well if that was the case, a quick death -a simple shot to the head- should have done the trick. Not smashing the guy's face with a steel bat until it resembled a raw uncooked hamburger or, as an even worse version of the story reads, going full Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the man. It was an accident. Killing the poor guy in itself was bad enough, but the apparent brutality of it all (even though no one knows what really happened) made it even worse.
