Not positing this as your position, but we can’t base the rightness of such an action in a vacuum that only considers the interests of one party and ignore the

Not positing this as your position, but we can’t base the rightness of such an action in a vacuum that only considers the interests of one party and ignore the interests of everyone else. In weighing the relative rights of individuals and society, the relative rights of the deceased’s relatives are less important than the victims relatives in knowing the truth about their loss, and societies interests in identifying murderers, whether alive or dead.