"If we seek justice, what good comes from punishing an already changed man?"
It doesn't matter if HE changed. That doesn't change his actions or the suffering he caused. I repeat the main point I made earlier, if he's truly redeemed, he'd be the one demanding punishment. True redemption cannot come until that person pays for what he did.
The fellow in the OP for example. I don't care if his guilt led him to cure AIDS. He can hang his Nobel Prize on his cell wall. Nothing will ever absolve him of what he did. Nothing can replace what he took from that woman.
"Do we convict people of crimes because we seek vengeance or justice?"
Not applicable in this case. Punishing a rapist is justice. Whither it's the day after his crime or 50 years later.
Why are you turning this criminal into Jean Valjean?
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