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| This article contains a detailed timeline of the fifteen legal executions that have taken place in Wisconsin. |
| How Wisconsin Eliminated the Death Penalty |
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| Read about the final person to be executed in Wisconsin before the state prohibited the death penalty. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Arm and leg restraints that bound John McCaffary, the last man executed in Wisconsin, 1851. (Museum object #1976.249.1–.2) |
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