I learned this from “daily hilchos bein Adom L’chavero”: Under : Love your Fellow as Yourself:
We are obligated to love and do chessed for all
people of unsound mind and even people who are no
longer alive. Acts of kindness to the deceased (such
as burying and eulogizing them) are of particular value, because we perform them without any expectation of reward.
There is no mitzvah to love akum (although in some cases, for the
On the other hand, the Torah demands that we be caring even toward
someone who is to be executed by the Sanhedrin, in which case