Mainly because they were being lawfully executed for murder by sacrificing of their own lives...he gave them the opportunity to reprent and be saved, just like Leal was today.
It’s funny how people think they can cherry pick the Bible...God’s COMMAND: Thou shalt not kill...God’s LAW: Should a man deliberately shed the blood of another, take him and immediately shed his blood...
That was the point I was trying to make, are souls are no longer bound to the law. However are physical bodies are still bound to the laws of man.