When I lived in Boston my girlfriend from Vermont (the parents owned a mountain, with large property on it) related the story that her Father had told her to walk an intruder at gunpoint (if apprehended successfully) to a doorway, get him to turn around at distance, then shoot him in the face. The idea being that he'd likely die and they'd be less liable to law suits, especially since they could argue he was coming towads them at the time the trigger was fired.