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To: Old Mountain man; Stourme; colorcountry

Rosmos Anderson - for adultery and apostasy

John D. Lee - For his part in the MMM

Thomas Coleman (or Colburn) - former slave for courting a white woman.

Ike Hatch

The Aiken party

The Francher Wagon train

A Mr. Johnson in Cedar City

Henry Jones


163 posted on 03/24/2009 7:14:33 PM PDT by reaganaut (ex-mormon, now Christian. "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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Phillip Klingensmith


164 posted on 03/24/2009 7:16:10 PM PDT by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: reaganaut

The concept of blood atonement is also why Utah had a firing squad for so long.


165 posted on 03/24/2009 7:17:12 PM PDT by reaganaut (ex-mormon, now Christian. "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: reaganaut

Oh Lord, how long will these false accusations continue against thy Church?

See the FAIR LDS response to these and other false accusations from the so-called ministry of the Tanners.

When will someone produce something other than garbage from anti-mormon sources.

From Wikipedia

“Main articles: Blood atonement, Crime and violence in Utah, Mountain Meadows Massacre, and Oath of vengeance
Despite a number of rhetorical statements by LDS leaders in the late 1850s, there is no evidence that anyone was “blood atoned” at the orders of Brigham Young or any other general authority. Contemporary claims for such actions uniformly come from anti-Mormon books and newspapers with lurid titles such as The Destroying Angels of Mormondom[1] and Abominations of Mormonism Exposed.[2]

The First Presidency issued an official declaration on the matter of killing apostates, as a form of blood atonement, in 1889. This declaration reads, in part:

Notwithstanding all the stories told about the killing of apostates, no case of this kind has ever occurred, and of course has never been established against the Church we represent. Hundreds of seceders from the Church have continuously resided and now live in this territory, many of whom have amassed considerable wealth, though bitterly opposed to the Mormon faith and people. Even those who made it their business to fabricate the vilest falsehoods, and to render them plausible by culling isolated passages from old sermons without the explanatory context, and have suffered no opportunity to escape them of vilifying and blackening the characters of the people, have remained among those whom they have thus persistently calumniated until the present day, without receiving the slightest personal injury.
We denounce as entirely untrue the allegation which has been made, that our Church favors or believes in the killing of persons who leave the Church or apostatize from its doctrines. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror; it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of our creed.”


167 posted on 03/24/2009 7:44:08 PM PDT by Old Mountain man (Blessed be the Peacemaker.)
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To: reaganaut
John D. Lee - For his part in the MMM
Just off the top of my head

John D. Lee was executed by the order of a federal judge after he was convicted for murder.

It's called the death penalty in all 50 states as far as I know. And that includes.....gasp...Utah.

The original question was, give me a name of some one killed because they disagreed with the Mormons. In context, which means an official death warrant issued by the Church.

As I have shown above, and far too often in your posts, your "proof" is anything but.

As I've shown above anything and I mean anything an anti-Mormon says is suspect.
174 posted on 03/24/2009 9:07:24 PM PDT by Stourme
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