RP recalls that JS approved of SR's speech on apostates, and that JS said Peter hung Judas Iscariot.

In discussing a US Naval mutiny in the news, Joseph says he prefers shooting or throat cutting as a means of execution to hanging.

WS tells of BY condoning the death of AH and extra-judicial killings in Iowa.

Richards records that Brigham said execution by beheading is the law of the Lord for repeated sinners.

GAS wrote the early criminal code for the Saints in what is now Utah.

Brigham says those in mixed-race marriages should have their blood shed as an atonement.

Jedediah M. Grant laments that there is not a more pure theocracy where state-sanctioned executions could take place.

Heber C. Kimball requests beheading if he ever seduces a woman.

Brigham Young says he would kill a cheating wife and her lover, so they could atone for their sins not covered by Christ's blood.

BY says that soon those not on the Lord's side will be hewn down.

JMG advises some to go have their blood shed by a committee appointed by BY to atone for their sins.

Brigham Young instructs Isaac C. Haight that an unnamed man guilty of fornication should be rebaptized, not killed for blood atonement.

John Hyde says the penalty for adultery amongst endowed LDS is death.

Hyde asserts that Vaughan and Monroe were killed for adultery. Blood atonement is mentioned in the same paragraph.

Hyde asserts that Bolton will someday be killed for blood atonement.

BY asks if the Saints love each other enough to shed their blood if necessary to save their souls.

Farr vaguely (and approvingly) mentions the Parrish-Potter murders.

Samuel Pitchforth gives his account and commentary of the Thomas Lewis castration.

Brown speaks obliquely about his involvement in the Aiken murders of 1857 and describes the aftermath.

John Cradlebaugh reproduces 8 affidavits, 1 court record, and 1 confession from his inquiry into the Parrish-Potter murders in an appendix to a published speech given to the US House of Representatives.

Cradlebaugh says the evidence shows the Parrish murders were done because they were leaving the church, the Deseret News editor (Carrington) strongly disagrees.

John Cradlebaugh reproduces 1 affidavit from his inquiry into the murder of the Aiken party.

HC Kimball says those guilty of shedding innocent blood must pay the atonement for that sin.

Brigham Young says that the penalty for inter-racial sexual relations is death.

DN gives its report of the killing of Brassfield.

J. H. Beadle alleges that blood atonement murders have occurred in the endowment house.

An anonymous "eye-witness" in Utah reports on a speech by Grant.

Young speaks of men saying they desire death if they apostatize from the Church.

Stenhouse quotes an anonymous source detailing a speech by Jedediah M. Grant.

TBHS alleges a "John G. . . . n" had himself secretly killed for blood atonement.

Ann Eliza Young gives her embellished version of the murder of Harry Jones and his mother.

Ann Eliza Young says the Parrish brothers were killed for apostasy.

Jacob Boreman passed the death sentence on John Doyle Lee who chooses to be shot as his method of execution.

JDL speaks of how church members justified violence on orders from church leaders.

JDL says the members of the church wanted him to die to atone for their sins.

John D. Lee's final confession says he cannot atone for the sins of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

JDL alleges that RA was killed to atone for adultery so the bishop could marry his wife.

Deseret News interview with Brigham Young that discusses blood atonement.

Brigham indicates that Joseph's death was a kind of blood atonement.

Salt Lake Tribune exposes endowment's oath against US Government and its people.

John Doyle Lee asserts a failed attempt to kill William Laney for blood atonement.

Charles W. Penrose says it is justice that those who shed blood have their own blood shed.

In a letter to Lee, Stokes says he thought two of his men were killed for blood atonement while trying to arrest Lee.

Deseret Weekly reports on hearing in federal court about the existence of an Oath of Vengeance.

First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve denies the church condones death for apostates.

Wilford Woodruff teaches Blood Atonement is for murder, and not adultery or apostasy.

William Smith asserts he left Nauvoo in 1845 in fear of blood atonement.

The New York Times reports the words "blood atonement" were found on a notebook owned by William Hooper Young.

Miss Ella Knight asserts that blood atonement still exists in Utah at the turn of the 20th century.

The Democrat and Chronicle reports that blood atonement will not be discussed in the trial of William Hooper Young, despite newspaper reports saying otherwise.

Joseph F. Smith declares that some sins place one beyond the blood of Christ, and require one's blood to be shed so far as possible.

Frank J. Cannon and George L. Knapp say that Jedediah M. Grant taught blood atonement zealously.

FJC and GLK says that HCK l taught blood atonement, but never enacted it.

Frank J. Cannon (with George L. Knapp) asserts that Orrin Porter Rockwell and the SLC police killed three men for blood atonement in 1862.

Charles W. Penrose says that blood atonement cannot be performed now because the law will not permit it, but someday that will change.

Joseph Fielding Smith teaches that Joseph Smith taught the doctrine of blood atonement, but denies the practice of killing apostates.

McConkie teaches the doctrine of blood atonement.

Gustive O. Larson gives an overview of the Mormon Reformation of 1856-7.

Paul H. Peterson says Brigham's rhetoric was calculated to bring about results.

USL removes firing squad as a method of execution in Utah.

Richard E. Turley Jr notes that many scholars think John Doyle Lee's autobiography was sensationalized by his lawyer, William Bishop.

John Turner says that Brigham Young used rhetoric to prod Mormons to repentance.

God commands Noah that man's blood should only be shed in capital punishment cases.

Alma condemns Nehor to death for murdering Gideon.

Amulek speaks of how the law requires the life of murderers.

Blood atonement is alluded to in the Church's Gospel Topics essay on 19th century violence.

George A. Smith and Amasa Mason Lyman were said to have preached against blood atonement in 1859.