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the point is that you can't absolve someone of genocide, you can only put them on trial and let them have their punishment

for the Shi'Ar legal system that punishment was death and when Jean died, it seemed to be over (despite the fact the X-Men had dragged it out)

but then it turned out that her genome was to blame and the Shi'Ar (and Skulls, and Kree presumably, who were all involved in the original trial despite being at each other's throats in every other respect) decided to destroy the Grey-Summers line entirely because it apparently inevitably leads to Dark Phoenix manifestations which leads to genocide

and the X-Men, despite being fully cognisant of all of this, keep defending her, her being Jean, her being the bird