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Genesis 9:5-6 (TNIV)

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5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. 6 "Whoever sheds human blood, by human beings shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made humankind.

This passage relates to the following question(s):
(v. 5) Does the blood-shedder need to die? Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed