Don't generalize and ask a baited question, you know that isn't what he was saying. He isn't condoning the "death penalty" for petty theft, it's far more than that. It's somebody forcefully breaking in to your house, threatening your life, stealing your property and absolutely destroying your piece of mind. Somebody that is without a doubt going to do the same thing to someone in the future with potentially much worse results for the home's occupant(s).

I don't think anyone thinks people should be killed for stealing electronics from Walmart, but there is an undeniable night/day difference with what happened here.