While rejecting the theme for 1 Cor 5:5, James T. South contends that the curse/death phenomenon is found in Acts 5:1-11 and 1 Cor 11:30:
Acts 5.1-11 relates the incident
in which Ananias and his wife Sapphira, two members of the church in Jerusalem
just after its establishment, were both struck dead for lying to the Holy
Spirit by keeping back some of the proceeds from the sale of property while
claiming to give it all. . . . in 1 Cor 11.30 Paul explains that due to the
Corinthians' aberrant observance of the Lord's Supper, πολλοι ασθενεις και αρρωστοι και κοιμωνται ικανοι. The verb κοιμαω (to sleep) is apparently here a
euphemism for physical death, as in 15.18. So the concept of physical death as
punishment for sin was not at all foreign to Paul's thinking. . . . in both texts people receive a
capital punishment for spiritual offences. (James T. South, “A Critique of
the ‘Curse/Death’ Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 5.1-8,” New Testament Studies
39, no. 4 [October 1993]: 543, 547-48)