A KILLER dubbed the “Deacon of Death” who brutally murdered two women and dumped their bodies in a lake has been executed. Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was put to death by lethal injection inside the ...
On May 28, 1996, the property owner — who had met Smithers in church where he was a Baptist deacon — stopped by to find ...
Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers, a killer known as the “Deacon of Death,” on Tuesday evening for the 1996 murders of two ...