2016 was the year of people I didn't know dying. So far 2017 seems to have been mostly people I do know, including my mum and various distant friends and relatives. Preferred the 2016 version, tbh.
Not that she didn't do horrible things - she did awful things - but she was a child, SEN, dominated by the influence of a powerful, evil man and crucified for her gender. I believe she was genuinely penitent many years before she died.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951