Does someone that murders people deserve what someone that helps people stay alive deserve?
In the afterlife, yes. Here goes my religious views.
The major fault that lead me away from religion (when I was younger and none of them could answer my questions properly, possibly because there are no answers) is the question of the afterlife, specifically Christian heaven and hell.
I think 'punishment' in all its forms is a very human thing to do. That being said, as my religious teachers so often put it "God is above us humans". The only proper way of dealing with people who have done wrong in a humane, rather than human, fashion, would be rehabilitation and reform.
I'm not completely up to date on everything, so my pop culture view on Christianity might be flawed but from what I know only those 'deserving' get into heaven. The flaw I see in this is why just punish people who have done wrongs in their lives? Why not educate them in the afterlife and as a supreme being grant them understanding of what they've done wrong, why it was wrong, and make them understand that they should have done otherwise. After all of that, I think they should also be let into heaven.
Back on topic, zeeba-G was probably talking about this woman who would've "let her son die" and how satchmo deserves to be rewarded. Well my take on it is they both get into heaven anyway.