I know the jokes will come out, it's just not appropriate now....
The kids aren't the point, the point is the man is dead, he has paid the ultimate price for any transgressions he may have made. It's like in the movie the greenmile where the guard said "Leave him alone, he's square with the house now," after the Indian guys was electrocuted. Maybe if he was still running free, then the bashing would be warranted, but for god sakes, you don't talk that kind of garbage right after someone has passed.