
you’re right it legit doesn’t matter. her “supporters” want her to be in a psych ward forever and the other side wants her to be in prison. nobody actually supports her unless they believe the husband theory which is obviously wrong and no one in court is arguing that. society is safe either way. while awful, this is a really really rare type of tragedy and has established ways of being dealt with in the courts
And the anger is so bitter between the two factions - even though they’re fundamentally the same outcome - that it strikes me as, at the very least, a proxy conflict about something else, if not something stirred up from above to distract from the problems we can really do something about (by voting)