It seems that the most common theory is that the snake was used to cover the murder of these two boys or the snake killed these two boys. If those are the two options, I hope the snake did it.

Regardless of whether the snake "did it" or not, everything else stands. The snake isn't "responsible", shouldn't be killed, isn't an evil killing machine, etc. If the snake is in fact what killed the kids, the snake's keeper is responsible, not the snake. I'd rather know that these boys each briefly awoke to find they were being constricted by a snake than to know they briefly awoke to find they were being strangled by an adult human being they trusted. I'm a mother before I'm an animal lover. The biggest tragedy here isn't the potential impact on the reptile world. That's big, for sure, but it's not the worst thing here.