TIL only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCaffary



Submitted April 13, 2015 at 07:22PM by NotAfraidOfFire http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32fwg6/til_only_one_person_has_ever_been_executed_by_the/