CarrionCrow: Oh, it's more than just that. Apparently bringing people back to life is only for good characters. Anyone who's neutral or evil can't.
GhostwriterDoF: What? Neutral characters can't even be resurrected? How very odd, indeed...
Evil characters should at least have some dark God (or Goddess) that brings them back automatically but does something mischievous to them for a short time, like turning them into a rat or a snake for a day or two on being revived.
Okay, to clarify, there are two flavors of bringing people back from the dead.
Raise Dead, which is a level 5 spell that doesn't work on elves for some retarded reason, and Resurrect, which is a level 7 spell that can resurrect anyone, regardless of race.
Anyone can be brought back with a Resurrect, regardless of alignment,
BUT, my evil storm priestess can't cast any of those spells, even if she wanted to raise a mass murdering psychopath.
This restriction is not in the original two games. For some reason the developer decided to add it to the EE version.