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Ervil(Evil) Morrell LeBaron justified multiple killings using the doctrine of blood atonement.
Blood Atonement - The idea that certain sins can achieve the highest degree of salvation. The ’sinner’ can personally atone for the sin by “having their blood spilt upon the ground, that the smoke thereof might ascend to heaven as an offering for their sins”. This was to be carried out with love and compassion for the sinner, not out of vengeance.
Ervil LeBaron was imprisoned at the Utah State Penitentiary and died there on August 16, 1981. |


