Very good, thus my point emerges. Whether they're forgiven or not by God, is God's business.

Our business is in offering them a chance to repent before we send them to Him. That's what forgiveness means from a temporal, human perspective. Offering someone a chance to be shriven before you cut off his head.

Once offered we can wash our hands of it. And I use that analogy deliberately. Christ didn't condemn Pilate to hell. Stark as it seems, it was his job.