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The problem here is that one player is either ignoring or ignorant of the title contract of the game, which appears to be “heroic party out to save the world from the forces of evil.” If everyone else in the party and the DM want to save the princess, and one character is dedicated to murdering civilians, than you have people playing very different, and potentially incompatible, games. Now, I think this is the sort of problem that can be pretty easily fixed by setting expectations, and getting explicit buy-in to those expectations, at a “session 0” before the campaign starts. If you and the players all get together and decide you want to play a game of heroic fantasy, than everyone should be doing that. The reverse holds true as well; if you all want to play a game of murderous rivalry between thieves guilds, the paladin who’s trying to arrest everyone is being kind of a dick.

In terms of solutions, I think the best way to solve this is to just have a title with the player, and explain what your reservations are. “Hey, it’s not fun for the rest of the group when you’re murdering people.” And, importantly, this doesn’t mean that they can’t be evil. Evil is not the same thing as psychopathic, so most well-designed evil characters won’t be spending all their time murdering and robbing people: did Darth Vader spend his time killing random villagers? No, he had more important stuff to do. It’s very easy to create a character who is evil and, for their own reasons, join up with the good characters to defeat some mutual enemy or threat.