The son of a lawyer, he also graduated in Law at the age of 22 with honors.

He works at the headquarters of the Agrigento Registry Office, where he remains from 1 December 1977 to 17 July 1978. In the meantime, however, he successfully participates in the judiciary competition and passes it.

He works in Caltanissetta, and then at the Court of Agrigento for a decade (1979-1989). As Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic, he deals with the most delicate anti-mafia investigations, of common crime, but also (in 1985) of what would later break out as the "Sicilian Tangentopoli" in the XNUMXs.

It is he, together with other colleagues, who is the first to interrogate a minister of state. This professional activity of his earns him the hatred of the mafia: he dies in a mafia ambush on his way to work, personally driving his car, without any escort.

On May 9, 1993, John Paul II, on the occasion of his pastoral visit, said of those killed by the mafia: "They are martyrs of justice and, indirectly, of faith".

In his farewell mass, his bishop describes him as a young man "committed to Catholic Action, assiduous in the Sunday Eucharist, a faithful disciple of the Crucified One".