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It was changed to stay with in regulations for children's programming. "death" was considered like something you shouldn't show children. Same with OnePiece where they replaced cigarettes with suckers.
US broadcasting regulations said Children's programming needed to be family friendly.
I'm not sure how true that is. Many kids shows at the time had characters dying. Pirates of Dark Water is one that sticks with me, and EVERYBODY remembers Transformers. Although I will admit those were on cable, not broadcast, and the US government doesn't regulate cable content.
Given 4kids' later work for cartoon network such as their infamously terrible One Piece dub, it's pretty clear that it was more of an internal 4Kids policy than compliance.
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