Rejected petition Bring back Stocks as a punishment to humiliate rioters

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Bring back Stocks in communal areas and city centres etc as a punishment for us to throw tomatoes etc at people who commit crimes that are petty in nature and disorder crimes in order to humiliate them. (& for use as a punishment for rioters convicted in recent uk riots)

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Date submitted 12 August 2011
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