John Smith - Criminals

Criminals

  • John Smith (housebreaker) (1661–after 1727), burglar who evaded hanging thrice and was eventually transported to Virginia
  • John Smith (murderer) (born 1951), convicted murderer who killed his first and second wives
  • John Eldon Smith (1930–1983), convicted of the murders of Ronald and Juanita Akins

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Famous quotes containing the word criminals:

    “Why inspire in us a horror of our being?... To look upon the universe as a prison cell and all men as criminals about to be executed is the idea of a fanatic.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    “How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”
    —Henry George (1839–1897)

    “The judges did the punishing, the criminals paid for their crimes and I, free of responsibilities, removed from judgment and from punishment, I ruled, freely, in an edenic light.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)