It's an interesting discussion on whether Vader should be given redemption. He was a General for the Republic during the Clone Wars for longer than when he went evil & became Darth Vader... & so his redemption includes more than just the last 10 minutes of his life when he killed the Emporer & won father of the year.
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He did A LOT of really bad sh*t in the 4 yearz he went dark... but the blowing up the planet thing goes against Palpatine (Darth Sidious) not necessarily Vader.
Vader helped him in all his endeavors... but since Vader ended up killing him, you gotta think that he didn't agree with some of the decisions that Sidious was making. The Aftermath novels make it clear that most of the people supporting the Empire from the top down were having doubts about Palp's methods. For that 4 yearz... Vader was more of a minion than "the brains" of the operation.
It's like if someone kills a person... but another guy drives the get a way car. The person driving the get a way car is not guilty of murder. They're guilty of assisting someone who is guilty of murder... which is still bad... but not as bad as the homicide itself.