[Terry Mross]

We’re taught that if we repent and ask for forgiveness we will be forgiven. So someone who rapes a child, sincerely repents and asks for forgiveness, will be forgiven. That’s God’s call and I accept it. My problem is I have to forgive the evil creep, too, or I won’t be forgiven. I just hope when I get to heaven I won’t know everyone else’s sin.

[Albion Wilde]

I think the weight of your forgiveness tasks is mainly on those with whom you personally interact, including layers of family, friendship, community, workplace, and civil society, and then on to larger society (such as the pangs a soldier or police officer may feel) and lastly, those whom you don't know but hear about, like this guy.

In the case of someone you don't know, believers understand that God will repay, and a felon's repentance towards God does not excuse him or her from appropriate civil penalties. It is the principle of "penitence" and "penetentiaries" based in the rule of law that keeps us from exacting cruel and unusual punishments or wreaking vengeance on a covict or his/her family for the sake of satisfying blood lust.