Giving an enemy a pass is of course unusual for any oc figure, real or fictional but IRL Magliocco got one despite plotting to murder Lucchese, Gambino and Maggadino. They gave Magliocco a pass because he was already very sick and everybody knew he would die sooner or later. But he was stripped from his position. Bonanno also got a pass despite the fact that he would live for another 40 something years and despite the fact that after his initial reprieve he jumped back into the war. Even after that he wasn't murdered. So again, mercy is highly unusual but it has happened IRL with non-related people that were trying to kill each other.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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