No smoke after death of other players

When you kill another player in survival the player does not fall down, give off smoke and dissappear like other mobs. Instead, they stay there and appear frozen until the other player clicks on "Respawn!" and then the player just vanishes. I'm not sure if that is how it should be or if this is actually a bug but this did not happen in previous versions. (0.5.0, 0.4.0, etc.)