History’s Most Notorious Criminals

Nelson Mandela

Crime: Saying that people should treat each other as equals.

Punishment: Imprisoned for 27 years.

Cicero

Crime: Preferring democracy to despotism.

Punishment: Exiled, then let back. Head chopped off and stuck on a pike.

 

Mahatma Gandhi

Crime: Preaching non-violence.

Punishment: Repeatedly jailed. Later assassinated.

 

Joan of Arc

Crime: Winning too much. Being a woman. Praying a lot.

Punishment: Imprisoned, raped, and burned at the stake.

 

Socrates

Crime: Asked searching questions about The Good, about Justice, and about man’s responsibility to his country.

Punishment: Calumnied, imprisoned, and executed by way of poison.

 

Galileo Galilei

Crime: Wondered if the earth could be circling the sun, and not the other way around.

Punishment: Imprisoned for life

 

Jesus of Nazareth

Crime: Saying we should be nice to each other.

Punishment: Beaten, mocked, whipped, stabbed, and nailed to a tree.

Justice: rewarding our best and brightest since 14,000 B.C.

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