User blog comment:Nerdyanimegirl225/The 3 picks/@comment-184.3.69.117-20140515045535/@comment-7418318-20140515073540

Actually we never saw Minerva deliberately trying to kill someone yet for sure.

That she didn't want to kill Millianna and Kagura is pretty clear, since they would be dead if she had wanted them so. With Erza (in the sun village) she only played around and we don't really know what the conclusion would have been since the battle was stopped mid-way.

What she did with Lucy would have killed her if not for Chelia and Wendy, but I'm not really sure that Minerva did that on purpose. Killing Lucy would most likely have resulted in her disqualification and could also have had her before a court for murder (I doubt they let murder go unpunished just because it happened during the Games). Thus I think it's more likely that Minerva either got carried away, was misjuding how much Lucy's body could take or that she was counting on the two Sky Sorceresses being able to prevent Lucy from dying.

Not that this is much of a redeeming factor. She's still a psychopathic, sadistic bitch, but she's not yet a murderer which would put her slighly after beings like Marde Geer, Kyouka, Hades, Brain, Jackal, Jose and the "old" Gajeel.