If someone is found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, why do we let them out?

Yea it’s fricked up, if I’m that boys father I’d be crafting up a plan to Dexter that evil POS

I'll probably ignore any replies as I'm not interested in debating the issue, but to simply answer your question from a legal perspective:

An NGRI plea/verdict means that the individual was incapable of discerning between right and wrong at the time of the offense, and therefore did not have requisite mental state to commit an intentional offense. Therefore, it's illegal to try to convict them of the crime. However, they are institutionalized for as long as they are determined to be a continued risk of harm to themselves or others. At which point they are no longer deemed a risk to themselves or others, they are generally permitted supervised release.

In short, the answer to your question is within your question: why do we let people out found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity? Because they haven't been convicted of murder.

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but seriously I thought this would at least put them in some kind of mental health facility

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They do. Back when I was a PD, I would routinely handle "sanity reviews" from cases that were decades old. Some had to be transported from Jackson every time and held in the box, some were transported from halfway houses and sat in the gallery, some (very, very few) walked in off the street, but were still being supervised. It's extremely case by case.

Liberal judges doing liberal things

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They should be retried as soon as they are deemed mentally stable.

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You're conflating sanity at the time of the offense and competency to stand trial. I've already given the standard for the former; the standard for the latter is whether the individual currently understands the proceedings against him and can aid in his own defense. The latter can "restored" and then tried once competent. Because the former is concerned with their mental state at the time of the offense, there's no way to retroactively restore it. They were either sane at the time of the offense or they weren't.

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if I’m that boys father I’d be crafting up a plan to Dexter that evil POS

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Scaphism
Scaphism, also known as the boats, is reported by Plutarch in his Life of Artaxerxes as an ancient Persian method of execution. He describes the victim being trapped between two small boats, one inverted on top of the other, with limbs and head sticking out, feeding them and smearing them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time.

One deemed insane should also be able to receive the death penalty or life without parole. No need for them to be in society.

Insanity plea for cold blooded murder should require an automatic frontal lobotomy, no other way to stop it from happening again.

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Technically, it results in zero penalty. The requisite "treatment" isn't really a "sentence" because they haven't been convicted of anything.

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Even dumber. What fricking moron came up with such a gross interpretation of the law?