If they break into your house, they leave their rights at the front door. Once we deported people for stealing a loaf of bread. Now we are more enlightened - Perhaps too enlightened. Crime needs to be punished.
A slap on the wrist in a magistrates court is no deterrent. If you break into an old persons house in the middle of the night and they wake up they will be terrified. The instinct is flight or fight, with whatever comes to hand. If the outcome has lethal consequences for the house invader they have only themselves to blame.