There's virtually no crime that can be physically redeemed, except for property crimes. Literally any other criminal offense creates an irredeemable injury. But that is exactly why nearly developed country, except for the USA have a redemption-type penal system. How do you measure redemption? Is r*pe redeemed after 4 or 50 years? It will never be for the victim.

But what you can do is try to help everyone to not become criminal again. Because for one, guess what, they're human too. They weren't born criminal and aren't criminal by nature once they've committed a crime. They have the right to live their life as much as the guy they killed. Once you have them forfeit their right to a free life, you commit a similar crime. One that in this case is done by objectifying them as an object rather than a subject.

This thinking is the result of hundreds of years of philosophical thinking and seeing the result of your mindset being used by tyrannys.

If they do not pose a danger to anyone anymore and have reformed then they are to be let go. Also in dubio pro reo.

As for minors, their mind is still developing, they may have cognitively known that killing someone is wrong, but they have not yet accepted it as their own moral. Not knowing even the basics of cognitive development of children, I feel like there's not even a point to discuss with you

He might save a life that, in prison or dead, he could not have saved. He might save twenty, even a million.

Sure. He might save more lives than anyone who has ever existed. The chances of that happening are as good as winning the lottery, but hey, it could happen.

He might also take another life. Or twenty. Or a million. The chances of that are substantially higher: far more people lose the lottery than win anything at all.

The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. The best approach to playing the lottery is to lock up the money you would have used, and never let it out to buy a ticket.

Ooh, edgy.