The filmmakers opted to take the subtle route as far as Maggie showing any remorse or moral anguish over killing the cop. It's possible that a scene was written and maybe even shot that depicted something to this effect, but they cut it for one reason or another. More likely, they wanted to show her rehabilitation as a gradual enlightenment and change as she performs her "penance" killing people for the government.
This is clear in the bathroom scene at the Mardi Gras where she can barely pull the trigger and, after she does, she weeps at her living damnation. P.J. enters the room and instinctively knows something horrible had happened, even if it was just Maggie experiencing ghosts of the past; actually it was both -- she just killed someone she didn't know from Adam and she was grieving over her past misdeeds that brought her to this living hell.
This scene reveals that Maggie had finally developed a conscience, meaning she had grown spiritually. It's after this occasion that she actively seeks an escape from her damnation, which -- again -- illustrates her genuine repentance.
That said, I agree that she was a pathetic, drug-addled loser at the beginning of the film and definitely deserved death, but the government blocked this for their own selfish purposes. Give Maggie credit: She could've remained a conscience-less killing machine at the government's beck & call, making great money and living "well", like The Cleaner (Keitel ) -- a lifeless, loveless shell of a human being; a living zombie -- but she refused to do this and even risks capture & certain death in order to find freedom to an uncertain and much less lavish future.
In short, she was redeemed.
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