Something that's always bothered me: most undead are evil but typically they are turned undead against their will which turns them evil. I am wondering: If someone who started out as good aligned but became evil due to turning undead be sent to the lower planes or not? Personally I'd say no since they didn't become evil of their own free will.
It depends on the undead.
Something like a skeleton or zombie are mindless undead. Their souls are not at all involved in their involuntary creation.
Something like a vampire could, in theory, seek redemption. Realize what it became and take it's own life as an act of good to stop the corruption taking their soul.
Most spawn, whether from shades, vampires, ghouls, etc. fall under that mindless category. They've no will, and by extension no involved soul. If their soul were still present, I would see killing the spawn more as "freeing" them than your instance.
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If it helps, try to avoid conflating the original being with the monster in front of you. It has the original creature's form, possibly memories, but the original creature is dead, its soul held hostage by the undead's animating force. The undead thing is evil, but that doesn't mean the original creature is now evil as well.