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Phineas Wilcox is stabbed to death in Nauvoo, Illinois, by fellow Mormons, as they were called, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), because he was believed to be a spy. Wilcox was one of the first victims of "blood atonement," a since abandoned Mormon doctrine, that certain sins were so serious as to put the sinner "beyond the reach of the atoning blood of Christ" For these fallen sinners, their "only hope" lay in having "their own blood shed to atone." More