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They don't take out the killings in the TV versions of other movies, so my guess is it could be for the kids or time.
Chris Reeve has to be the closest to Siegels version of Superman, if he did kill the Zone criminals, which I don't see, but understand. His Clark is bumbling and his Superman kills with a smile.
Actually, I would play the Wile E. Coyote card there because, right after he does that, he goes and gets revenge on the guy who beat him up by spinning him around so fast he's a blur, so fast that I'm pretty sure it would kill someone to be spun that fast in reality.
The Superman movies were not really science lessons in how physics really works. I remember being in the theater seeing the first Reeve Superman movie. When that helicopter fell like twenty stories and he caught it, stopping it in it's tracks, you could hear a collective gasp from the audience. Effectively, he might as well have hit the ground from twenty stories up. He survived and seemed no more injured for it than he already was.
I'm just saying that arguing what such and such would really do to a person in reality doesn't mean much when applying that to the Superman movies. They weren't particularly realistic about what people could survive.
It's not unlike "Smallville" when Clark hit a guy and sent him flying across the street and shattering a car windshield. The guy then faked a collarbone injury to start a lawsuit. In the DVD commentary, they were joking about that fact that, in reality, it wouldn't be a fake. In fact, that impact would probably break every bone in his body and possibly kill him. In the show, he had a few bruises.