Is breaking and entering punishible by death? No. But you do have the right to defend your property. I think that if he would have first fired a shot to warn them then my guess is they would have high tailed it out of there and would still be alive. If they would have come closer then I would understand shooting them to stop them and if they pulled a weapon then I could see him shooting to kill. I think that if he only shot them like once or twice each and then they died I could understand that but I think he did get a little carried away. I could see how that could be a spur of the moment decision to kill them because if he was scared he probably wasn't thinking logically. I do not think that he should be locked up for a long time though. I mean they broke into his house and very well could have been armed. They should have never been there anyways. It's a sad story for all those involved though. I can honestly picture myself on either side of this situation and am glad that I do not have to go through all this.
