Joseph Fielding Smith stated: [T]he founders of Utah incorporated in the laws of the Territory provisions for the capital punishment of those who wil[l]fully shed the blood of their fellow men.
Execution by firing squad was banned by the state of Utah on March 15, 2004, but because the law was not retroactive,[REF] four inmates on Utah's death row (one of them, Roberto Arguelles, died of natural causes) could still opt for this method of execution.