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This is a pretty classic case of jury nullification where the jury ignored the law because they didn't like the result and provided their own law.
Assuming he did rape the girl (so HIS guilt isn't in question), she brought a gun (and EXTRA ammo) to their meeting, confronted him about it, unloaded a clip into him and then reloaded and continued shooting. We call this first degree murder. She planned ahead of time to kill him, and did so.
Without the reload, I'd be willing to buy an argument that she just "happened to have" a gun and got so upset about his response that she pulled the gun and shot him. That would make it a pretty easy second degree murder case.
Manslaughter is the killing of another without the intent to do so. It's not strictly an accident, but your agency wasn't designed to kill the person. If Cheney's shot had killed that dude he was hunting with, for example, we'd call it manslaughter. Nothing about this case reflects a lack of intent (or "malice aforethought") on her part. But...the juries felt bad for her so they refused to convict her of the crime she actually committed and convicted her of a lesser offense.
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