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Hard to say for me. I mean, for all of that, he's still a human. She can't help but see that he's a person; a horrible person, but a person nonetheless. Killing a person can be incredibly difficult for many, even with a backstory like that. In fact, it might be more common for a person to stop and hold back rather than make the kill, at least the first time. And seriously this is nothing new and hardly something so out of left-field to be derided as an over-the-top attempt at making her seem "so pure". I'm pretty sure around 80-90% of stories have people in these situations stop their blade and refuse to kill the person after they cease to be a clear and immediate threat, often with the same reasoning that doing so would be stooping to their level or otherwise compromising their own sense of right and wrong. As horrible as they made Idol, Raphtalia's refusal to kill him did not in my opinion seem in any way outside of predictable behavior.
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