10 Odd Crime Facts

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4. Taking Stock

 

The stocks were a type of confinement device for criminals that were used in the early days of colonial America. Ironically, the stocks were used for the first time in Boston to punish a man named Edward Palmer. His crime? Charging too much for the stocks he built.

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