Jesus' death as payment of sins

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

the only time I'd heard blood atonement used, prior to about a month ago, was as a dark moment in LDS history when Brigham Young argued that murder was so grave a sin that Jesus' blood didn't cover it, and the sinner-murderer would have to spill his own blood in sacrifice as ransom in order to be forgiven by God.

IIRC that is why Utah was the last state to abolish the use of a firing squad for capital punishment.